Nov 20, 2005 · A lightning bolt carries between a billion and 10 billion joules of energy, which is enough energy to make 100 000 pieces of toast! The lightning bolt is sufficient to heat the air …

Jun 3, 2007 · How is lightning generated? Franklin's experiment worked because lightning is a multi-million volt electrical discharge between one cloud and another, or between a cloud and …

Jan 11, 2009 · The reason that the lightning's nice and bright is that, as the electricity goes smashing though the air it causes the electrons in the atoms to get very excited. They then fall …

Jan 7, 2014 · It's about 100,000, as Ed suggested, because basically, there's 10 billion joules of energy in a lightning bolt and it takes about 100,000 joules to bake a slice of toast.

Aug 12, 2012 · This has made the air expand supersonically, making a shockwave that then comes towards you through the air as a rippling roll of thunder. You can't really have the …

Feb 13, 2011 · All that charge runs down one single lightning bolt all the way down to the ground. I think that lightning bolts hit each other in the sky all the time and essentially, they just pick the …

May 9, 2010 · Dave - Lightning is basically a huge spark. You get about 100,000 Amps of current flowing down through the air. This gives out about a thousand trillion Watts for about 30 …

Jan 16, 2011 · The operation involved fusing a titanium rod to her spine, to replace but not remove an old surgical steel one. I have nicknamed her the lightning rod as she is petrified to …

Nov 20, 2005 · Answer When you put crackers into a tin, the amount of air, and thus water in the air, is limited. Thus, even though they'll soak up some water, they don't have access to a …

Nov 20, 2011 · Certainly, planes get hit by lightning quite a lot, but they are made out of aluminium. That's a very good conductor - acts a bit like a lightning conductor. But I think …