Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions?

@westom I hear you Westom. I've got layers of stuff to wade through. Much depends on whether I build from scratch or work with an existing structure. When I have more info on what I'm dealing with, I'll be posting here-perhaps a new thread, since I don't want to highjack this one (any more than I have). Thank you. Good holiday to all. 

That Ufer ground looks very interesting. Thanks for bringing it up. I am always amazed by what information can be gotten on the internet.
Whart, don't worry about hijacking my thread. I enjoy learning new things.

So, it seems the ground may be a place I should be inspecting more closely. As my house is almost 100 years old, is there any way to test a ground? Or, is there any way to add a newer/more effective ground?
Thanks Bob

I have dual solid copper large ground rods pounded in over 8' apart and large copper solid core ground wire running the them (in series) to my house feed/meter head. From there, I have an EP 2050 waveform regenerator+surge suppression on my main house panel and EP-2750 ground filters on the dedicated circuit in the subpanel and the feed from main house panel. Upstream are my power conditioners in the room. The EP units with proper deep earth ground is a very effective combination. See my system page for more details.

As my house is almost 100 years old, is there any way to test a ground? Or, is there any way to add a newer/more effective ground?

A utility demonstrates what must exist with good, bad, and ugly (preferred, wrong, and right) solutions in Tech Tip 8 in
https://www.duke-energy.com/energy-education/power-quality/tech-tips

Every incoming wire must first share that single point earth ground.  A hardwire connection that is direct (ie TV cable, satellite dish) or that is made via a protector (telephone, AC electric).