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).
Transformation of kinetic energy of charged particles to electric energy. In order to make the energy transformation more efficient, it is desirable to avoid the thermal conversion. For example, the efficiency of nuclear energy reactors, where kinetic energy of nuclei is first converted to thermal energy and then to electric energy, lies around 35%. By direct conversion of kinetic energy to electric, i.e. by eliminating the thermal energy transformation, the efficiency of energy transformation process can be dramatically improved.