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To: EasySt
When large power connections get turned off, “lightning bolts” many meters long typically spring from the switch, and last for several seconds.

I picture bajillions of electrons rushing down a wire. Someone breaks the circuit, and now the electrons pile up at the end of the wire, eventually jumping into the air.

1,347 posted on 10/11/2019 1:40:46 PM PDT by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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To: AZLiberty

Jacob’s Ladder
Spectacular video, 10 seconds
https://youtu.be/PXiOQCRiSp0


1,398 posted on 10/11/2019 4:35:58 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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