Have you ever wondered what a Christmas tree would look like if you ran a couple thousand volts through it? Have you ever wondered it aloud? Have you ever tried to run a couple hundred volts through a tree, only to find out that you’ve started a fire and the presents you were about to give to people are burned to a sweet crisp? Then you’re not Peter Terren.
Nikolai Tesla was a genius. He had a near photographic memory, helped and scoffed and Thomas Edison’s patient misunderstanding of science, and would’ve been one of the world’s first billionaires had he not been extremely unlucky. He also invented a device that sparks bursts of high-frequency electric current, which looks really insane against the night sky, called the Tesla coil. Even more insane? Someone decided to build a tesla coil in the shape of a Christmas tree, then stand next to it, despite the fact that it could kill him easily.
This man, Peter Terren, spent hours preparing this tree to get a few photographs for your pleasure, so look at it with wonder. Think of how the baby Jesus guided the wise men with a star at night. Maybe it wasn’t even a star. Maybe baby Jesus built a Tesla coil. A 500,000 volt Tesla coil.
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