In Discussion Forum 1, post your response to the following discussion questions.

• It is possible to charge a balloon to several thousand volts using electrostatics, for example, by rubbing it on one’s hair or on different types of clothing. Does this mean that the balloon is also storing several Joules of energy? Why or why not?
• Only a small amount of the energy used in an incandescent light bulb (regular bulbs commonly used in households) is actually converted into light. What happens to the rest of the energy? How more efficient light bulbs (LEDs for example) are able to waste less energy?