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Insights don't always come in a flash of. lightning is one of nature's most or inspiring phenomena and can also be a highly destructive one two million lightning bolts are recorded in germany every year. researching the enormous power and energy behind trees discharges of static electricity is anything but easy. scientist christiane pollard is determined to find out more. he tracks like one as a profession luring it to a t.v. tower on top of a one thousand meter high peak in the various alpine foothills. of the tower is one hundred fifty meters tall. at the top of attached an aluminum ring and...

Insights don't always come in a flash. of. lightning is one of nature's most or inspiring phenomena and can also be a highly destructive one two million lightning bolts are recorded in germany every year. researching the enormous power and energy behind these discharges of static electricity is anything but easy. scientist christiane palled is determined to find out more. traps like knowing as a profession luring it to a t.v. tower on top of a one thousand meter high peak in bavaria alpine foothills. of the tower is one hundred fifty meters tall. at the top of attached an aluminum ring and we'...

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>> this is unbelievable insurance. >> don't you want to get that policy. i haven't seen that much exposure at a gas station since. >> -- zoolander. >> i think that's what he was doing. >> he was dumb. the fact he couldn't under the correlation between gas and fire? and he didn't go one step further? >> you are not supposed to talk on your cell phone base a little static electricity -- >> is that true? >> yes! >> all of these pumps have the safety lock. why was it all over the place. >> the pump was ruined. >> he is lucky he didn't blow the whole place up.

65,000 feet. explosive eruption carries that debris way up there and that rock and that ash starts to become positively charged. so basically what we are doing is separating the charge of neutrality and negative charge to electronics. basically allowing for that static electricity or lightning bolt to form. and we get that within the volcano and creates a spectacular site. i like to call this the fusion of light. it is basically mother nature balancing charges. what an amazing thing. what a spent cal. nasa also capturing this image. this is from space. you can see just how high in the atmosphe...