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The Sweet Remains
2020-06-27 20:16:13 (UTC)

Lightning...

Lightning, one of the greatest natural phenomena known to man. It is both spectacularly beautiful and incredibly dangerous. There is a lot of work that goes into something so magnificent. A typical lightning bolt starts from what is known as a stepped leader. It is a series of negative charges that race down from a storm cloud. They typically run in 150-foot segments. When the lowest step comes to within about 150 feet of a positively charged object a climbing surge of positive electrical energy called a streamer occurs. When the two connect… as much as one billion volts of electricity flow to the earth, heating the air around it to 50,000 degrees, some 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

One positive, one negative, one billion volts. 5x hotter than the surface of the sun. All between two sets of lips… the word “spark” wouldn’t do it justice.




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