This blog post is going to be a bunch of different facts because there are just too many great facts to choose from! It's all going to be about electricity, as you can see if you look at the title, so lets get started. Static electricity is that zap you sometimes get when touching something metal. It's caused by an electric charge building up on the surface of an object. The zap then comes from an opposite charge neutralizing the electric charge.
Everyone knows what lightning is, it's that beautiful flash of light in the sky when it's storming. It can also appear when the days get too hot, so the air cools down and causes heat lightning. Well, lightning bolts are a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere and they can reach 130,000 miles per hour while also reaching 54,000 ºF. There is a ton of electricity just in that lightning bolt just imagine what it would feel like if it struck you.
Now electric eels are kind of like lightning bolt, they both basically have electricity in them. Electric eels aren't near as powerful as a lightning bolt. Electric eels only generate 500 volts of electricity which can still hurt or even kill someone. They generate all of this electricity for them to use when hunting or just for self defense.
Now the biggest source of energy for electricity comes from burning coal. The coal is burned to heat boiler water, which produces steam that spins turbines attached to generators. This is a ton of work just to power the electricity we use today. There are other ways to produce energy and then electricity, they are just not as efficient and have some side effects as well. The other options are things like wind turbines which can be set up in windy places, but then they can mess up the migrations of birds. There are also water turbines, but they mess with the rivers of the ecosystem which mess up the living of the wildlife. There is also a bike that a really smart business man is making. If the bike is pedaled for an hour then it can generate electricity for a whole 24 hours. If this machine were being shipped out to the poor countries they could be used to makes tons of electricity. The only side effect is that you get incredibly healthy.
Everyone knows what lightning is, it's that beautiful flash of light in the sky when it's storming. It can also appear when the days get too hot, so the air cools down and causes heat lightning. Well, lightning bolts are a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere and they can reach 130,000 miles per hour while also reaching 54,000 ºF. There is a ton of electricity just in that lightning bolt just imagine what it would feel like if it struck you.
Now electric eels are kind of like lightning bolt, they both basically have electricity in them. Electric eels aren't near as powerful as a lightning bolt. Electric eels only generate 500 volts of electricity which can still hurt or even kill someone. They generate all of this electricity for them to use when hunting or just for self defense.
Now the biggest source of energy for electricity comes from burning coal. The coal is burned to heat boiler water, which produces steam that spins turbines attached to generators. This is a ton of work just to power the electricity we use today. There are other ways to produce energy and then electricity, they are just not as efficient and have some side effects as well. The other options are things like wind turbines which can be set up in windy places, but then they can mess up the migrations of birds. There are also water turbines, but they mess with the rivers of the ecosystem which mess up the living of the wildlife. There is also a bike that a really smart business man is making. If the bike is pedaled for an hour then it can generate electricity for a whole 24 hours. If this machine were being shipped out to the poor countries they could be used to makes tons of electricity. The only side effect is that you get incredibly healthy.