Energy 101; Explaining Static Electricity

A quick look up into the skies during a chaotic thunderstorm can meet you with a variety of sights and sounds

. Torrential downpours, expansive black and grey clouds that fill your vision and most importantly, dazzling displays of lightning bolts thundering to the ground in vibrant whites and yellows. This is the very fundamentals of electricity in action. The energy that is emitted from just one of these bolts has enough juice to power over one hundred lamps for more than a day.

At its most basic level, electricity is a source of power that can amass in one particular place or travel via a current from one place to another. The first of these examples, electricity gathering in one spot, is called static electricity. Static of course meaning an object that is unmovable. On the other hand, when electricity is capable of moving from one place to another it is instead called current electricity.

Let's take a closer look at the first example. As a child you probably experienced one form of static electricity when you were in a dark room and had a scratchy wooly blanket around you. Static electricity can form when two things are rubbed together. When two object like that blanket or a balloon are rubbed together for a short period of time, they begin to emit a static charge. The result of that balloon sticking to your forehead or the little jolt you get when treading over a carpet in you bare feet is static electricity.

Lighting is the most powerful example of static electricity. When cumulus clouds make their way across the sky they in effect, begin to rub against the air that surrounds them. It is this constant rubbing that begins to make a charge build up around them. When the threshold of this charge has been reached the result is the pent up energy being released in a dazzling display of movement from cloud to Earth. This is what we call lightning. That tingling you feel in the air when a storm is about to break loose is the tell-tale sign that your surrounding atmosphere is properly charged for the occurrence of lightning.

Electricity is caused by the movement of tiny, tiny little object called electrons. These electrons circle around an object giving it a negative charge. When these electrons come into contact with things like your hand or another object, the electrons can jump over to the other object. When this jump occurs, the original object is left with less electrons than what it started with. This abandonment of electrons gives the object a slightly positive charge.

As those electrons have migrated over to the other source, the result is a positive object being met with a negative object. The result of these two objects colliding gives birth to static electricity.

Since we have discovered much more efficient ways of harnessing this power we have been able to power all sorts of things from a business's back-up generator to the small refrigerator out in your garage. Electricity is truly, all around us.

by: Max Stanford

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