{"id":1548,"date":"2009-02-24T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:30:31","slug":"our-one-source-of-energy-the-ultimate-discovery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/our-one-source-of-energy-the-ultimate-discovery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our one source of energy, the ultimate discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folk at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcattack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arcattack.com<\/a>\u00a0know what electricity is really for. As their site explains it,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tesla_coil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla coils<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which means you can play tunes on them. Like this guy, getting lightly grilled (about 45 seconds in) to the strains of the Imperial March.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pJqoRaphiEk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pJqoRaphiEk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/major-clanger.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major Clanger<\/a>\u00a0for the info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folk at\u00a0arcattack.com\u00a0know what electricity is really for. As their site explains it,Tesla coils: &#8220;&#8230; produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/our-one-source-of-energy-the-ultimate-discovery-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[110,402],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-electricity","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}