More sense could be derived by considering lightning and radio-ground
conductors to be transmission lines. It's also more simple than reams of
words.

But perhaps its asking too much of the present-day school and engineering
educational system which neglects arithmetic.

Ignorant school teachers frighten pupils by calling it Mathematics. As I've
said before, the culled kids who live in the sewers of Rio de Janerio, South
America, are better (self) educated.