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trhway
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Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thun...
while the field is strong, the actual energy seems to be not much - a lightning bolt is few billions of Joules, i.e. about 1000 KW/h (100kg gasoline).
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sandworm101
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Well, 100kg of gas along with a similar ammount of oxygen. Even then, burning through 100kg of gasoline in the few microseconds of a lighting bolt would probably be more powerful than any non-nuclear bomb ever dropped.
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trhway
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Lightning takes tens of microseconds, bomb - couple hundred microseconds, so about 10 times difference power-wise.
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