Yes, you read right. http://www.tiac.net/users/reilly/levd-page.html http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/TN-13.html http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/html/TN-13/ I have personally witnessed a pickle emitting light (haven't tested kimchi). And, why yes, we *did* try this at home :-) Emits lots of smoke, sparks and bad smells too so open the windows and pull the battery from the smoke detector first. Erik "used to have far to much time on my hands" Vistica