Electricity travels at the speed of light, about 300,000 kilometers per second.
A spark of static electricity can measure up to 3,000 volts.
The average taser emits 50,000 volts.
A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million (3,000,000) volts (and lasts less than one second).
The word “electrocute” is a combination of the words electro and execute, meaning you were killed by electricity. If you do not die, you were not electrocuted, only shocked.
In Albertville, France (host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics), they make electricity from cheese! Since whey isn’t needed to make Beaufort cheese, bacteria are added to the whey, turning it into biogas. This gas is then fed through an engine which heats water to
generate electricity.
Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity.
You need about 648 AA batteries to power a human being for a day (based on 1 calorie = 4.2 Joules)!
When you call Got Electric, LLC., you can be confident knowing that we will only send a qualified, experienced electrician to your home.
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