Part 4 – The Shocking Earth

One of the great things I had done with my Dad was make an electric motor out of paper clips, nails, a block of wood and copper wire. Once it was working my Mom thought it was really interesting and exciting but my Dad could only analyze it and offer improvements. This opened my eyes to the reality that there were little energy gizmos running around really fast all over the place. But what were they doing most of the time? Here we are so worried about our lack of energy and here they are with way too much energy. I mean look at lightning after all!

In the secret room was some tin foil on the wall for reasons that have to do with the 60’s, black lights and Jimi Hendrix. The electric motor a few days after being built rested under the Shelf of Great Ideas and fairly close to the tin foil on the wall. Hmmmm…

What if those energy gizmos starting crawling on the tin foil and then were enticed down a copper wire to the electric motor. I could run a fan or something ’cause it was getting hot in here or better yet I could power the life support system for the transport-one-anywhere-at-the-speed-of-thought-thing. Cool.

It required more thought but I wasn’t in the mood and later on I found the Testatika which had it pretty well worked out. This great idea lived on the Shelf of Great Ideas quite happily and it turns out it was related (grand nephew or something) to the simple earth battery that early telegraph operators employed without pay to power their remote stations.

Years later my Mom asked about the tin foil and I mumbled something incoherent, afraid to reveal the mysteries living in her house…

Next: Part 5 – A Feisty(able) Move