{"id":37434,"date":"2023-02-18T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=37434"},"modified":"2023-02-18T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:44:45","slug":"high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=37434","title":{"rendered":"High-powered lasers can be used to steer lightning strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning rods have been used to safely guide strikes into the ground since Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s day, but their short range (roughly the same radius as the height) and fixed-in-place design makes them ineffective for protecting large areas. The technology may finally be here to replace them in some situations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/laser-guides-lightning-strikes-172716503.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning rods have been used to safely guide strikes into the ground since Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes.jpg",1920,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes.jpg",1920,1280,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37434-high-powered-lasers-can-be-used-to-steer-lightning-strikes-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}