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It does make a good capacitor though. Built much like a leyden jar the great pyramids at Giza had a granite lining, thick limestone insulator and white metamorphosed limestone outer layer. Using the main body of limestone as reference the granite is about 250% more conductive and the outer layer is 50% more conductive. The whole thing was capped with a gold capstone, an electrode possibly to capture static electricity from the higher potential in the air above. A current inducing water flow still runs underneath the pyramids today. @Red_Menace
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[–] Sullysq 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It does make a good capacitor though. Built much like a leyden jar the great pyramids at Giza had a granite lining, thick limestone insulator and white metamorphosed limestone outer layer. Using the main body of limestone as reference the granite is about 250% more conductive and the outer layer is 50% more conductive. The whole thing was capped with a gold capstone, an electrode possibly to capture static electricity from the higher potential in the air above. A current inducing water flow still runs underneath the pyramids today. @Red_Menace
[–] MannKepetry ago
if they knew so much about electricity they should have been able to build a much better cap
[–] Sullysq ago
What do you mean? How was it flawed?