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Scientists use lightning bolt to charge mobile phone
- trebor 13y agoThis is potentially one of the biggest breakthroughs ever. The ability to harness static electricity and convert it into usable electricity within our own electronics could be used to extract some of the power from not only lightning strikes, but from the atmosphere.
- lcedp 13y agoReminds me of Back to the Future episode when they used a lighting strike to charge time-traveling device :)
- flipchart 13y agoThe image in the article shows a Tesla coil which generates alternating current, not static electricity. I hope for the scientists' sake that it was just shite reporting, which it was either way