It's good to have humor in the thread.
Many years ago our company looked into the disposal and reuse of concrete.
I had done
lab test inducing high voltage and high current into concrete. The theory
was that the
electro-chemical reaction would separate the concrete into some of it's
components.
Some test were done at a Colorado facility with streamers from ground to
cloud lightening.
The concrete did fracture and in some cases exploded. The cases that
exploded were concrete
that had rebar through the broken concrete. There can be many answers why
it happened .
Possible reaction of water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, or other explosive
gases produced.
The bottom line is that the amount of energy produced from a lightening
strike is enormous.
Fast forward from the 1975 to today. On going research a few years ago
repeated our experiments.
I think a German company now has a process were they reuse, separate, the
concrete by an electricity.
A direct strike on the tower would discharge the energy to ground through
the base to ground.
Even if the concrete base would not explode, it would be weaken enough to
fail.
Skip K3CC
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