Question about lightning rods

[James41088]

I have two lightning rods.
Is this pointless? do they reduce the chance of the other being hit, or can they both be used?
If they need to be a certain distance from each other, what is that distance?

Please help me figure this out can't find any information anywhere, and it's hard to tell since they get struck so rarely as it is.

 

[TangentialThreat]

I believe the one and only thing that matters is the height of the rod. Surrounding blocks of any sort do not matter.

Lightning is kind of a disappointing power source without some way to control the weather. In the next update eternal storm mystcraft worlds will no longer be bugged but who knows how long that could take?

 

[DoctorOr]

You can surround a matter fab with a lightning rod on four sides and will get 4x the UUmatter as the guy with one, over a sufficient amount of time to level out probability.

Lightning is kind of a disappointing power source without some way to control the weather. In the next update eternal storm mystcraft worlds will no longer be bugged but who knows how long that could take?

There will never be another update for 1.4.7 for either mystcraft or gregtech, and there has already been one for 1.5.1.