Hi. Maybe this is a dumb question with an obvious answer, but I don’t know/remember enough to know for myself.
Lightning causes forest fires. It’s happening more and more as there are more droughts. If they can put lightning rods on buildings to protect them, could they not build a bunch of lightning rods in forests in susceptible areas? Would the lightning go into the ground and be harmless, or would it somehow still start a fire?
Cost aside, would it help prevent forest fires or no?
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TIA.
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1. Forest fires help the forest long term
2. it would be impractical to put a trillion lightning rods in our forests.
3. lightning rods wouldnt work anyway because they’d have to be higher than all the trees
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