Lets take a moment to think about how awesome electricity is. First we have these early rock star inventors, Edison, Tesla, Faraday. Then we have this power grid which is all about magnets. Magnets are awesome as well, but lets save that for another entry. All the plugs in your house can be traced back to some kind of generator spinning a magnet that pushes electrons in a circle through the circuit. Nuclear, wind, water, natural gas, coal, all work this way. Photo voltaic is the only power source used that doesn’t spin magnets around as far as I know. Photo voltaic are as magical as magnets. Somehow they harness the ability of photons to knock electrons off of atoms.
Because its easy to forget how exciting electricity is lets watch these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA
from www.neatorama.com
Here is article about how to make a jacobs ladder out of an old monitor. mmm, dangerous.
http://www.afrotechmods.com/reallycheap/Jacob/jacob.htm
Finally, here is someone applying high voltage to beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AXRPajIXa8
Personally I would never mix high voltage and beer. I learned my lesson mixing high voltage and hydrogen.