2014-08-20, 17:36
From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Physics:
" The energy of an average 3 mile-long lightning strike is one billion to ten billion joules. To keep a 100-watt light bulb going for one second, one hundred joules of energy will be used. With one billion joules, the light bulb will be lit for 116 days. "
It begs the question, "How easy it is to determine the energy in a 3 mile long flash if "average" is somewhere between 1 billion to 10 billion joules?"
" The energy of an average 3 mile-long lightning strike is one billion to ten billion joules. To keep a 100-watt light bulb going for one second, one hundred joules of energy will be used. With one billion joules, the light bulb will be lit for 116 days. "
It begs the question, "How easy it is to determine the energy in a 3 mile long flash if "average" is somewhere between 1 billion to 10 billion joules?"
