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Originally Posted by Turtle
Mmmm...I'm not sure about this BD. In part because of the electrical nature of lightning and I think we had a article somewhere indicating cosmic (gamma?) rays may trigger some lightning, and in part because locally at least to the bolt, the lightning is superheating the air. Mmmmm....  |
The amount of energy conducted through the bolt far exceeds the heat generated. The localized super-heating can't touch the total loss of energy in a strike. I am trying to find info on this. But it goes slowly.
Bill
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