Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-10353303-20160125223207

An interesting thing to consider is Percy's ability to "create" water. The only reason why water, as we typically think of it, is a good conductor of electricity is because of the impurities within the water that allow the movement of ions (and thus transfer of charge). For instance, salt (NaCl) dissolved in water (salt water) is a good conductor because the dissolved salt acts as the electrolyte to allow the transfer of charge to occur more easily) However, if he has the ability to create water, any form of water, he could create pure water, which is a poor conductor of electricity (due to the lack of aforementioned impurities and lack of ions to transfer electric charge). If he were to use that ability, Jason's ability to cast lightning to electrocute and harm Percy would be a moot point.