YouTube Hits: Close lightning strike

Here’s a fantastic short video of lightning striking a beach, tens of metres away from the cameraman. Lightning, as I’m sure you’re all aware, is caused by ice crystals rubbing together and transferring charged particles in storm clouds. What you might not be aware of is that thunder is the sound that lightning strike – the sound of the air along the lightning bolt’s path being instantaneously heated to 30,000°C. Warning: mildly NSFW language…

Meet the British version of the Tesla Roadster: the Lightning GT sports car

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We’ve been raving on about the Tesla Roadster in recent months, all the while unaware the Lightning GT was bobbing around on the surface as well.

British made, the luxury sports car is actually packing a whole heap of electric-powered goodness under the hood, including NanoSafe technology, which enables the batteries to hold 85% life after…