Lightning Rods

[MarkP]

I have never understood how a lightning rod is supposed to work. Lightning can leap across miles of clear air, melting things and exploding trees when it does. I think that if you actually get directly hit, you're screwed. You would have to have a copper conductor the size of a tree to conduct the energy and even then it would be glowing red hot after the strike. However direct hits are rare. The extraneous EMP and stray electricity around the actual lightning covers a huge area though. That is what you can hope to mitigate.

I think.