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Scientists said this week that they used a high-powered laser to change the direction of lightning strikes for the first time. The laser was aimed at the sky atop Mount Santis in northeastern Switzerland.
Scientists use laser to guide lightning bolt for the first time
Researchers have used a high-powered laser beam pointing into the sky in north-eastern Switzerland to divert lightning strikes.
The rays generated during thunderstorms were converted for the first time in the world into a laser, which is located in a telecommunications tower on
WASHINGTON — When Benjamin Franklin fashioned the first lightning rod in the 1750s following his famous experiment flying a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm, the American inventor had no way of knowing this would remain the state of the art for centuries. Scientists now are moving to improve on that 18th century innovation with 21st century technology...