The young inventor watched in anticipation and excitement as miniature bolts of
lightning began to leap from the Tesla coil. The electricity from the coil
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was split by the
static charge generators which were attached to electrical nodes. Half the nodes went
nowhere, into the ground. The energy there was wasted. This was on purpose, and
essential. One of the biggest problems
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in harvesting the energy from lightning is that
there is too much of it. So, any storage cells
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used could be quickly overloaded and
ruined. The other half of the nodes fed the energy harvested from the coil into wires.
These wires first passed the energy through transformers and then fed it into the storage
cells which were basically car batteries Pung had rigged.