Energy

Enough energy
There's enough energy in ten minutes of one hurricane to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

Power loss
Internal combustion engines lose efficiency at the rate of more than 2 percent for every 1,000 feet of attitude. At Lake Titicaca, at 12,500 feet in the Andes, motor cars and powered boats lose about 30 percent of their rated horsepower.

Lightning and Thunder
A single lightning bolt may give off 3,750 million kilowatts of electrical energy. About 75 percent of this energy is dissipated as heat, raising the temperature of the surrounding air to around 27,000° F. and causing rapid air expansion which leads to sound waves- thunder- that can be heard up to eighteen miles away.

Sun's energy
The Earth receives only one-half of one-billionth of the sun's radiant energy. But in just a few days it gets as much heat and light as could be produced by burning all the oil, coal, and wood on the planet.

Energy is constant
The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant; energy cannot be created, and it cannot be destroyed. One form of energy can be converted into another, or transported from one place to another. But that is as much as can be done. When energy is used, it doesn't disppear; it merely goes alsewhere or is changed into another form.

Volcanic power
A volcano has greater power than does the greatest hurricane, tsunami (a seismic seawave), or earthquake.

Really hot
A lightning bolt generates temperatures fives times hotter than the 6000°C found at the surface of the sun.