Lightening Trees

Art student Melanie Hoff took jumper cables to a whole new level: she connected two at a time to a large piece of wood and charged them with 15,000 volts of electricity. It is so cool to see how the electricity travels through the wood, burning branch patterns, like lightening in the sky.
  

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