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while the field is strong, the actual energy seems to be not much - a lightning bolt is few billions of Joules, i.e. about 1000 KW/h (100kg gasoline).
by trhway 2y ago
while the field is strong, the actual energy seems to be not much - a lightning bolt is few billions of Joules, i.e. about 1000 KW/h (100kg gasoline).
- slow_typist 2y agokWh
- sandworm101 2y agoWell, 100kg of gas along with a similar ammount of oxygen. Even then, burning through 100kg of gasoline in the few microseconds of a lighting bolt would probably be more powerful than any non-nuclear bomb ever dropped.
- trhway 2y agoLightning takes tens of microseconds, bomb - couple hundred microseconds, so about 10 times difference power-wise.