how many volts of electricity in one lightning bolt?

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how many volts of electricity in one lightning bolt?

Answer 1

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A Positive lightning strike can produce as much as 300,000 amperes and ONE BILLION VOLTS! In fact positive lightning has been recorded as striking as far as up to 10 mile away from the parent Thunderstorm, this is known as a bolt from the blue.



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Answer 2

Volts In A Lightning Bolt

Answer 3

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how many volts of electricity in one lightning bolt?

Answer 4

A typical lightning bolt contains 1 billion volts and contains between 10,000 to 200,000 amperes of current. The average flash would light a 100 watt lightbulb for 3 months.

Answer 5

MV is right, the rest are wrong. 50,000 volts will only jump a couple of feet. Look at your power poles. Most have 12,000. Those big ones are usually 60,000 to 115,000 volts. Do you see them jumping hundreds of yards? Of course not. It takes several hundred millions of volts to break air down over such a great distance as traveled by a typical lightning strike.

Answer 6

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Lightning is created by an electrical charge difference between two clouds or between a cloud and the ground. When enough static electric energy has built up, there is an enormous amount of current. Current is the movement of electrons between two locations, and this is what creates electricity. Imagine walking in a room when the weather is dry, and rub your feet on the carpet. Then touch a doorknob. You get a shock, right? What you did was build up a charge in your body, and that shock is basically the same principle as lightning. What you built up in your body was a small charge. What builds up in clouds during a storm, quite often by the instability in the air and friction, is enormous. A cloud is quite large and can build up a large charge. The clouds then discharge all this energy at one time, and the electrons are transfered to the ground or another cloud of opposite charge. There are so many electrons moving, that the current is very, very high, resulting in a very large voltage.

Answer 7

Voltage varies with each lightning stroke: between 50,000 and hundreds of millions of volts. For the duration of a typical lightning stroke, enough electricity is generated to power the world ( a few milliseconds).

Answer 8

between 10000000 and 1000000000 volts! yikes

Answer 9

50,000 volts typically

Answer 10

i thought it was like 30,000-50,000 but i may be wrong