Conductive metals are used to bond lights to the wingtips, and the bonding protects the lights by grounding ... a lightning strike. Today engineers install these systems with surge protection ...

Lightning protection systems use large copper cables that are installed high in the tree, down the trunk and into a trench in the ground that leads away from the tree where the cable is connected ...

The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful protection, experts say.

This will better support the prediction of, and protection against, lightning disasters affecting power grids." More information: Fengquan Li et al, Nowcasting of cloud-to-ground lightning ...