Comment on A lightning bolt would be worth only about a nickel (2015)Comments−whoomp123424yif so little power, how does it fry a tree?−trelane4yIt's not so little power, it's so little _energy_ (power over some period of time). It's a crap-tonne of power, just over a _very_ short period of time.And yes, power is what fries the tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating−whoomp123424ymind=blown. I never considered the time factor
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if so little power, how does it fry a tree?
It's not so little power, it's so little _energy_ (power over some period of time). It's a crap-tonne of power, just over a _very_ short period of time.
And yes, power is what fries the tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating
mind=blown. I never considered the time factor