Submission + - Lost Ark of the Covenant discovered? (telegraph.co.uk)
Conundrum writes: "seems they might have found the Lost Ark of the Covenant, in Ethiopia.
according to some theories the structure of the Ark stores electrical energy like a Leyden Jar (a form of capacitor) and explains how people were "struck dead" as touching one will cause death if the charge is strong enough (more than 30 Joules or so)
so maybe they used it for buffering the power flow from static collectors, and running primitive silicon carbide/gold wire based lamps.. who knows."