pine trees and electrcrity

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Are pine treesa conductor for electrical storms?



Reply from toddsteppenwolf User Rating:  2640 Knowledge Tokens
if your asking do pine trees atract lightning? my answer is yes, all trees will provide a place for lightning to strike and travel thru to ground, becouse of their height as far as the resin in a pine tree, resin is a poor conductor for electricity, not saying it don't conduct it, just saying SAP is a poor conductor of electricity, lightning will hit the highest thing around to and travel down it to ground,

below is a site that you can check out and read more on what trees conduct better than others,

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP658.pdf

hope this helps
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