We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.

We're removing one of the five generators which produces electricity on the ship. It will be sent away to a special workshop and will probably be re-installed in October, when the ship comes back to her home base of Parry Sound for summer maintenance work.

It is a combination of the price of electricity and the forward-thinking mentality where people are looking for high-tech solutions to environmental problems.

Broadband is going to be as fundamental as electricity or plumbing. I won't tell you when, but it's coming.