Air at sea level has an insulating breakdown threshold of about three million volts per meter.
At a height of fifteen thousand feet, within the thin mist of the Floating Granite Platforms, that threshold drops by nearly thirty percent.
When Young Master Zhang Wuheng thrust his hand toward the twenty-four-inch black lightning bolt on Frank’s plywood signboard, he didn’t realize he was closing an open circuit.
His bandaged fingers reached within three inches of the bold black thick tar ink.
BZZZZT.
A sharp ozone smell instantly filled the air.
The black thick tar ink—rich in dense, conducting elemental carbon specks deposited in an exactly straight sharp-angled line—acted not as a passive pigment. But as the charged plate of a high-thickness flat charge bank.
Coupled to the static charge of the floating granite platform through the steel C-clamps, the drawing held a floating static-electric potential of over ten thousand volts.
