{"id":250,"date":"2007-05-09T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2007-05-09T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T15:47:07","slug":"funwithelectricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/funwithelectricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/TeslaCar.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Peter Terren&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/aboutme.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/aboutme.htm<\/a> from Australia clearly has no fear of electricity.  Like Ben Franklin with his kite, Terren plays with homemade &#8220;Tesla coils&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Tesla_coils_intro.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Tesla_coils_intro.htm<\/a> and &#8220;rail guns&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Rail_gun.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Rail_gun.htm<\/a> like they&#8217;re, well, play-things.  Also worth checking out are his experiments with far-too-powerful &#8220;can crushers&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/CanCrushing.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/CanCrushing.htm<\/a> and lots of cool &#8220;lasers&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Lasers_%20HeNe_YAG.htm.\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Lasers_%20HeNe_YAG.htm.<\/a><br \/>\nThe above photo was taken by Terren of he and his son sitting in his Hyundai under a homemade 5-kilowatt Tesla Coil.  The car and its jolting accessory are profiled &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/may07\/5053\">http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/may07\/5053<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Peter Terren&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/aboutme.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/aboutme.htm<\/a> from Australia clearly has no fear of electricity. Like Ben Franklin with his kite, Terren plays with homemade &#8220;Tesla coils&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Tesla_coils_intro.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Tesla_coils_intro.htm<\/a> and &#8220;rail guns&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Rail_gun.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Rail_gun.htm<\/a> like they&#8217;re, well, play-things. Also worth checking out are his experiments with far-too-powerful &#8220;can crushers&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/CanCrushing.htm\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/CanCrushing.htm<\/a> and lots of cool &#8220;lasers&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Lasers_%20HeNe_YAG.htm.\">http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/Lasers_%20HeNe_YAG.htm.<\/a> The above photo was taken by Terren of he and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[126,364],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-engineering","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}