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World's first drone system for fighting lightning protects cities and infrastructure (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We already had lightning defenses in cities they're called lightning rods and they were invented in like 1870

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

But what if instead of learning how and why lightning rods work, we replace them with a "solution" that is less effective, but also costs 5 times as much to build and implement? That's before you even factor running costs.