ABSTRACT
Few dispute the fact that electricity is valuable. Certainly electricity provides services, sustains and improves the quality of life, provides warmth, illumination, transportation, medical diagnostics, and motive power, facilitates product development and use, and engenders technology. But electricity’s value is not limited to categories nor can its value be demonstrated by narrow examples of its use. Electricity empowers society and its synergistic effects offer benefits which have hardly been identified, let alone explored, evaluated or documented. Electricity is a natural phenomenon—one of the basic forces of nature. It was not invented by humankind, it was discovered by humankind. It would be foolish to speculate life without electricity or electric phenomena. In fact without electricity, there would be no life—all living creatures rely on electricity to send impulses to and from nerves and muscles. Electricity is key to the function of the human body—it allows messages to be sent from one point to another, controls the beating heart, and facilitates memory.
