Typical length5,000 m
1,825Pool tables
30,675iPhone Pro Maxes
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Lightning Bolt (Typical)
300 million volts of atmospheric impatience/Scientific Objects
A typical lightning bolt is about 5 km long but only about 2-3 cm in diameter. It carries a peak current of about 30,000 amperes and heats the surrounding air to about 30,000 K, roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun. A single bolt contains about 1 billion joules of energy, but because it lasts only milliseconds, you could not practically harvest it. Earth is struck by lightning about 8 million times per day.
Measurements
Channel diameter2.5 hundredths m
5 thousandthsBalance beam lengths
1.3 tenthsPlier lengths
2.5Tooth lengths
2-3 cm
Channel temperature30,000 K
90.9Clothes dryer temps
104Hardwood floors
96.1Dog body temperatures
5x Sun's surface
Energy per bolt1 billion J
106,838AA batteries
239,006Food calories
2.9 thousandthsNuclear fuel pellets
About 1 GJ
Duration200 millionths s
74.1 billionthsOil changes
667 millionthsBlinks of an eye
4 hundredthsHousefly wingbeats
About 0.2 milliseconds per return stroke
Peak power1 trillion W
333,333Diesel locomotives
50 trillionLED indicators
About 1 terawatt briefly