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National Research Council of Science & Technology

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The negative polarity (-) lightning strikes the conventional air-termination (lightning rod), but the positive polarity (+) lightning, which occurs more frequently in winter, avoids it and strikes the relatively negatively charged side of the wind turbine blade.

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