September 14th, 2006
Electric Ice
I wonder if this will ever have uses in the home. Not that I can fit 10 million kg in my house.
It may seem hard to believe that a powerful bolt of lightning, which heats the air in its path three times hotter than the surface of the sun, could spring from little pieces of ice. But that’s how it is, according to theory, and indeed laboratory experiments have confirmed that you can generate electricity from ice-ice collisions.
