What effect does it have on the environment?

So you want to know how static electricity effects the environment? Well read on to find out...
Here's a list of good and bad things that static electricity does...

Good:

• It is sometimes fun to play with it and get electric shocks
• It is sometimes fun to try all the fun experiments with Static Electricity
• It can help make some machines work (see how do we use it) 
  

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                                                 Bad:

• Sometimes you can get unexpected shocks and that can hurt
• Static Electricity makes lightning.  Scientists believe that when differrent layers of atmosphere move  with different speeds they brush against each other and create giant Static Electricity fields. When these Static Electricity fields become too large they discharge through huge sparks- lightning.