How many kilowatt hours is a lightning equivalent?

A flash of lightning is equivalent to about 280 degrees of electricity.

The research results show that the energy transmitted by a typical lightning is about 65.438+0 billion joules, which seems amazing. But in fact 1 kwh has 3.6 million joules. Converted, a lightning can get about 280 degrees of electricity.

The most common lightning is linear lightning, which is some very bright white, pink or light blue lines. It looks like a river with many branches on the map, and it hangs in the sky like a winding tree.

Scientists have long known the "temper" of linear lightning. The whole process of linear lightning can be completely recorded by continuous high-speed camera, and the simulation experiment can be successfully carried out in the laboratory. In addition to linear lightning, there are spherical lightning and chain lightning, both of which are relatively rare.

Spherical lightning often occurs in bad weather of strong thunderstorm. A fireball suddenly appeared in the sky after the linear lightning. The fireball floats in the sky along a winding path, and sometimes it may stop and hang in the air. This kind of fireball likes to drill holes, and sometimes it rushes into the house through chimneys, windows and cracks in the door, and then slips out of the house.

Lightning frequency

There are about 1800 lightning exchanges going on all over the world. They emit about 600 lightning flashes per second, of which 100 hits the earth. Lightning can transform some nitrogen in the air into nitrogen compounds, which can be washed to the ground by rain. In a year, every hectare of land on the earth can get a few kilograms of this free fertilizer from the sky.

Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and Java, Indonesia are the most vulnerable places to lightning strikes. According to statistics, there are 300 days of lightning in Java a year. The most violent lightning in history was that 1975 hit a small house near Umtali in rural Zimbabwe, when 2 1 person died.