I know all of have been wondering how do I charge my flashlight on Mars? It turns out Mars is one giant static discharge device. It took them a long time to figure this out. Mars does not get much lightning. I think the voltage does not get high enough for a good strike but the energy is carried away by charged dust. Still there is plenty of static discharge in the 10000 volt range. This is going to play hell with your electronic devices and lead to people getting zapped even in their suits. The process is simple enough you put up a wire connetc it to a battery and ground the other end. You might want to add voltage regulators. https://scitechdaily.com/mars-isnt-just-red-its-electrically-alive-scientists-reveal/
And I thought getting covered in cat hair because of static was a problem…
Based on physical electrical theory, putting up some spires or obelisks might allow for charge to pool at those “points”.
Maybe it’s why the african deserts are deserts, because of what the pyramids were used for.
The first time I heard this … I was shocked
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I wouldn’t touch that with a 10 foot pole.
That’s an American idiom that Canada also uses. Except for some older Canadians who use the barge pole reference from the UK.
In Germany it’s pliers of some sort.
Some people would say that it is just residual charge left over from the Tesla roadster that Elon sent to Mars 7 years ago.
Others would say that Elon knew there was a charge available and that’s why he sent the Tesla roadster.
So was Kaya. 
Every time there is a major breakthrough it happenes right after some fool says it’s impossible. Such as heavier than air craft will never fly. Neil Tyson just said we will never go to mars.
Neil tyson likes to hear himself bloviate. He’s intelligent and educated, sure, but it’s that structure that has locked his thinking into a box. He’s so afraid to be wrong, it’s like, is he even really a scientist?
Neil deGrasse Tyson has said for a long time that we will not be going to Mars. There is nothing there to support human life or probably most Life as we know it. There is very little atmosphere including very little atmospheric pressure. About 1/3 of the gravity here. No water or food. A tiny fraction of a percent of oxygen. The lack of atmosphere makes it very cold. I could go on and on about all the things that it lacks to build or survive.
The good news is that it has plenty of radiation.
I guess we could do a fly by and drop off a couple of trillion cubic kilometers of seawater and then see what develops after a billion years.
And that might help our rising sea level problems. It would be a win-win.
Polarize the atmosphere and seed it with…trade secret stuff. Drop a few pyramids along the equator.
I had a toy growing up which was a neon bulb with two sphere electrodes. Build up a static charge and the light would light up. Can’t find it but it looks like a bulb is all you need. Neon Bulb for Electro-Static Experiments | xUmp
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