While walking my dog I noticed that several of the power poles are grounded. That means that they have a cable from the top of the pole down to where it attaches to a metal stake driven into the ground. This is similar to what we always called a lightning rod, where you have a met pole on top of your house connected to a grounding stake to conduct the electricity away from the house and into the ground.
I had a fun idea today. I will take a couple of those grounding wires, disconnect them from the grounding rods and attache them to each other. That way, if one of the poles get struck by lightning, I'm hoping that the current will get conducted down one wire and back up the other and the lightning will shoot back out of the top of the other pole. Wouldn't that be cool?
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