Cameron's flagship EU referendum Bill hit by warning it is not legally binding and next government could just ignore it. 1  Tory plan to be debated on Friday but Labour and Lib Dems boycott vote. 2  James Wharton's backbench Bill promises a referendum by the end of 2017.
Photo: A lightning bolt is a huge release of static electricity, in which built-up electrical potential energy shoots from the sky to the ground in a sudden, improvised, electric current. Picture by David Parsons courtesy of US DOE/NREL (Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory).
When charged up with high voltage, the Leyden jar gave the gentlemen an unexplainable hefty shock when they touched the metallic foil. The first practical use of static electricity was the âelectric pistolâ that Alessandro Volta (1745â1827) invented. He thought of providing long-distance communications, albeit only one Boolean bit. An iron wire supported by wooden poles was to be strung from Como to Milan, Italy.