# An ECCD--Electronic Charge Compensation Device--As a Quantum Dissipative System
## 1 Introduction
Therefore, as the influence of the ECCD is sustained over the time, with a quasi-continuous operation, given that once the charges are compensated in a nearby environment at a given moment, the ECCD will be recharged, and repeatedly, the ECCD will re-compensate them, and so on. It seems intuitive that its influence on the existing charges in its environment will be much greater than 10 m and that, in any case, it will keep a relationship on the condition that all the existing conductive structures in its environment are at the same potential. However, for each time of discharge or when a charge compensation occurs, there is a withdrawal of mass in the volume of the environment of the ECCD that  
Figure 2: (**A**) ECCD 100 installed in the telecommunications tower Les Pardines in East Pyreenes (Andorra); (**B**) ECCD 100 installed in AEMET Meteorological Radar (Jata Tower) in Vizcaya (Spain). unbalances the composition of the medium that surrounds the ECCD in the next volume. This will deal with the external forces that determine the internal dynamics of that environment: pressure gradients, local electromagnetic forces, forces linked to the viscosity of the medium, and the gravitational force [2]. All these external forces, and others linked to possible interactions of inter-atomic and inter-ionic forces, affect the gaseous diffusion processes of the ECCD's environment, towards an energy balance that could be considered adiabatic and isotropic, and isothermal processes that tend to homogenize the near environment--altered in a quasi-constant way by the performance of the ECCD. This will affect an extended environment in a way that is estimated to coincide with that which has been statistically well proven in these seven tower station points, assigning a secured minimum range of radio-protection efficiency of about 100 m for an ECCD: DDCE 100 model. An ECCD is a compensator device of electrical charges in a nearby environment, and it collects pulses of electric currents associated with the cloud-cloud lightning or the other exogenous agents (including the eventual ground propagation of electric derivative pulses as a consequence of a closed or other, far-way lightning impact). At the same time, these electric pulses are a source of radio frequency signals, but they are not the only source; other causes may contribute to electromagnetic radio frequency, such as cloud movement, wireless communication signals, and variable wind friction. The electromagnetic radiofrequencies present in the environment of infrastructure protected by an ECCD are assorted. The property of the ECCD of being a local sink for radio frequency fields has been recently (March 2019) proven with an experimental real field test achieved by Dinnetco at the quay of Nagoya United Container Terminal Co. Ltd. in Tomihama, Tomi-shi, Aichi, Japan [3], where a large dock crane was being protected with an ECCD (DDCE 100 Plus model). Before using the ECCD protection, the NHK telecommunication tower near the pier generated serious discomfort in workers of a large dock crane, where the electric potential varies between 50 and 900 V (see register measures in Figure 4 A) but 1200 V peaks were measured as well. In this test, measurements of the electric current were from 5.31 to 39.22 mA. After the installation of the ECCD protection, the electric potential in equal points measured was reduce from 70 to 50 V (at same time electric current: a minimum of 0.94 mA and a maximum of 10.94 mA). All that was done without affecting the communications services established by the NHK tower. Figure 3: Diagram of the protection efficiency of an ECCD, model DDCE 100, as an average of statistical results obtained over long period time in seven different geographical points. Each diameter representing the radial distance to the ECCD is the efficiency, considered as difference to 100 minus the probability (in %) to receive a lightning discharge, in relation to installed ECCD position.