This fails electricity 101. No iPod can divert a 300,000V lightening bolt. She was just lucky.
“This fails electricity 101. No iPod can divert a 300,000V lightening bolt. She was just lucky.”
Actually it doesn’t fail electricity 101. lightning will follow the lowest impedance path. The wire of her Ipod would be lower impedance than her body as the lightning went to ground.
This shows how technically ignorant the press is.
And they have the nerve to lecture us on global warming and energy.
Ah, yes, it can. The lightning, finds the easiest path, which in this instance was the fine copper wire of the earbuds. The earbud wire, carrying far too much amperage and voltage, are vaporized. The vaporized copper makes an excellent ionized plasma conductor through the air that has far less resistance than her body. The copper wire is merely the initial pathway while the vaporized copper plasma is the primary pathway conductor. Note the burned pathway on her clothing and also on her chest. That was from the copper/air plasma surrounding the pathway of the no-longer existing copper wire.
well that all depends on how much time it had to divert 300,000 volts over doesn’t it..
There is no way that it took all 300,000V but you would be amaze what a wire could do for a tenth of a second. It very well amy have saved her life..