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 Interesting. Sounds right. I remember an engineering prof explaining grounding as the earth being basically an infinite capacitor. And on YouTube there's a channel called Electric Universe (I think) that says electricity moves through space, which is exactly the opposite of what's taught, and I don't see how it could be possible, but the effects certainly appear to demonstrate it. Electricity, as we understand it, needs a medium to move across. 

But this is great - if we're seeing causes and effects but can explain the connection, that means we're about to get better at physics, which means I'll soon take possession of my moon, Ganymede. 
 electricity is conducted via magnetic fields and as plasma

you wanna see something cool, search youtube for a video showing that flames are more conductive than air, he rigs a tazer, bends the electrodes wide so they don't arc normally and then shows that you put a flame between them and they arc

plasma carries extra electrons and when this substance hits a positively charged material (like the atmosphere) the electrons cross to balance the potential, and then there is also types of radiation that actually cause electric currents to form in materials, like ultraviolet, which especially adds electrons to oxygen and halides, which then become ionised and that's where we get the ozone layer from

the auroras are caused by electrical excitation of the neon, argon and some other gases in the atmosphere by electricity brought by plasma from coronal mass ejections

and the stuff about magnetic fields, that's essentially induction... 

i don't think any of this stuff is really that far out of what is already understood in physics, it's just that certain people don't want these directions to be explored, so their 'investments` in marxist ideological bullshit result in maximum sales of their companies' products... just like how they pushed everyone onto rapeseed and sunflower oil by demonizing butter and tallow and lard, and we are still to see the reckoning on this, even though in our circles this is starting to become common knowledge (especially the sunburn issue) 
 Didn't find that video, but did find YouTube's infinite plasma rabbit hole. Lots of amazing stuff