Wow. Just, wow.....

/Electrical Engineer here

...I have a bad feeling we'll be reading a follow up about this guy's charred corpse all too soon.

Volts of current. Interesting.

Never confuse voltage with current.

vpRockstar

Normally, I wouldn't find that funny. However, for this guy, I would hope for the Amusing tag.

I must be the only one who thinks he actually said, "In one bolt of ligtning..." and somebody made a typo when transcribing it.

Epsilon:

"I must be the only one who thinks he actually said, "In one bolt of ligtning..." and somebody made a typo when transcribing it."

"volts of current" is non-sensical.

At work we once listened to an Baltimore Gas and Electric company "expert" tell us over and over that

"Lectricity always goes down"

He said this at least twenty times.

Man what a hoot.

Forrest Gump Lightning Protection Service....

Great... Just Great...

I t hink they transcribe it wrong...

however, still does not forgive the fact that the guy is talking volts instead of amps...

hehe. scott peterson.

and the fact that the 'b' and 'v' keys are next to each other on the keyboard couldn't possibly indicate a typo...so that's a partial out.

Heh. I think "volts of current" is submitter's mistake maybe?

Farked or something

so we'll never know

I offer my resistance.

/Article doesn't acutally say "Volts of current".
//And "volt of lightning" is just a typo.

It doesn't appear to say amp or current anywhere in the article.

And it's clearly suppost to be "bolt of lightning" not "volt of lightning".

Prehaps the submitter is overreacting?

After taking a course on grounding and lightning protection, I can tell you that this guy probably has as good a chance of protecting against lightning as the worlds experts.

Lightning protection is a bit of a black art. At best you can cover the roof with a grounding network and have rods on all projections/corners, have grounds going down to solid in-earth rods on all corners. That *might* make a difference.

On the other hand, as often as not, even with reasonable installations, lightning doesn't usually follow the planned path to ground. A rod might attract it to the house, but there is no garentee that it will continue on the intended path to ground.

/Electrical Engineer
//laughed at the small town ad disguised as lousy tech article

Submitter, tsk tsk...

/got nothin

1.21 gigawatts = 30 million volts?

Okay, someone's wrong here, and I have a hard time believing its doc brown.

/Long live Doc Brown!
//If you don't get this reference you suck.
///What the hell is with all these slashes anyway?
////Conforming because I want to, not because of peer pressure.

Tom Fury knows!

Headline makes no sense. Neither does the article, really...

I bet it was the journalist that screwed everything up. Or, at least... I hope it was...

ok, gona offer a bit of defense for the guy. I know, I'm asking for it.

But check out this quote:

"It was kind of a fill in thing, but its taking off and may end up taking up for time than my carpentry."

I'm going to guess that what he really said was "...may end up taking up more time than my carpentry."

That is to say - I'm gona blame the reporter, Dawn, for this one - not the carpenter, Rodney. She likely screwed up whatever it was he did say, just like she obviously screwed up the "more" for "for." What word did he really say? Well, "jolt" sounds like "volt," and ummm...hell, I dunno. I call reporter misquoting on this, though.

Epsilon, I was thinking the same thing--especially considering the other typos throughout the article.

ScubaDoo

Thank you! That's exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. Sounds like Cooger and Dark need to have a little chat with this guy...

Wouldnt the dumbass tag be more appropriate?

Wow, he's going to "Education Himself". Sounds stupid and evil to me.

acanuck
... a lightning rod does not and cannot carry the current of a lightning strike. It's sole purpose is to discharge the clouds above, which is why the rods are pointy.

Sorry, wrong on both counts.

Who's more dumb? The "electrician"? The person who wrote the article and didn't challenge the interviewee? Or the editor who allowed the article to go to press this way?

for sanity's sake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod

(no html skills present)

Reading that hurt my brain.

I have a 1 gallon gas can that holds 30 million gallons of gasoline.

I think you mean 1.21 jiggawatts, headgeek.

Phillipe

Very Clever..............and funny as hell

Back to the future part 3 is currently on my dvd player screen... such a good trilogy

InsidiousMrHuge
Glad someone got it! I thought I was going too obscure (especially since I couldn't find a decent shot of Fury's face anywhere).

A while ago I saw a prank warning sign that said DANGER: 1,000,000 OHMS. Ha ha.

File Photo of "scientists"

High school physics surrenders.

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros depends on if he gave it in person. If it was written advice, transcribed by Dawn, then I'd sue Dawn instead.

Ohm-y god, watt the fark is he on about, if anything happens it's his own volt, it goes against current guidelines, there's a potential difference between him and the living, he should be charged by the police, he should stand as a candidate in the next electron, etc. etc.

/link's not working for me

ScubaDoo,

best pic in a long time!

Cars use DC. The current only goes one way. That's why cars only have one wire. Houses have two wires because they use AC. The current goes both ways: out and back.