That reminded me of this article:

Colossal bolts of electricity arced hundreds of feet from the tower's top to lick the landscape. A curious blue corona soon enveloped the crackling equipment. Millions of volts charged the atmosphere for several moments, but the awesome display ended abruptly when the power suddenly failed. All of the windows throughout Colorado Springs went dark as the local power station's industrial-sized generator collapsed under the strain. But amidst such dramatic discharges, Tesla confirmed that the Earth itself could be used as an electrical conductor, and verified some of his suspicions regarding the conductivity of the ionosphere. In later tests, he recorded success in an attempt to illuminate light bulbs from afar, though the exact conditions of these experiments have been lost to obscurity. In any case, Tesla became convinced that his dream of world-wide wireless electricity was feasible.

Explained here (lectures 5 & 6).

Jeez, Colorado Springs is weird.

Well that got boring fast.

then you can start the land assault

The lack of any good reason to invade Oklahoma is probably a good security system in itself.

Does this have something to do with Megan wiring an outlet?

A guy used to bring a coil about that size to burning man; one time I saw him plant a circle of 4' flourescent tubes in the ground around it, and as the coil arced to each one, they would light up, and then explode. Way neat.

But after we blow up the coil, I want to take their construction yard, so I can build one of those for our side.

Dear God this thread makes me want to play Red Alert.

i can haz prism tanks?

So, what is that thing?

Actually... hmmm. There's probably too many power generators by air, so send in a spy, kill the power for a minute, then take out the towers in that minute before they come back online. Then eat the conyard. No need for Tanyas.

Spies are useless!

Not as useless as trying to use a Tanya on a tesla coil. If the person's staggered them properly, she'll be fried before she can C-4 them.

I already took out the power by air!

They have lots of little power plants that are cheap to remake.

I just started the ground assault!

You did not take out five power plants in one aerial assault. So fssthp fzzthp dead Tanya.

Power plants are flimsy!

But so are your planes. Flak cannon. Poopfpoopfpoopf. 'there's too much flak!'

What are you people talking about?

There's only one way to settle this, Cala.

21: Ben, they're talking about computer games of the sort played by nerds who read superhero picture books and wet the bed until the age of twelve.

And you totally didn't buy five extra power plants.

Don't need it to be extra, just not all clustered. Russian energy is cheap.