Cool, anyway Some physics on both Storm and Kitty(mainly the movie incarnations, doesn;t matter since they are referring to their normal feats)
-In one scene, a mutant is able to walk through walls, something we all know is impossible. It is impossible for two objects to occupy the same space- except for waves. Also, a person would need to change the atomic structure of a wall in order to walk through it, meaning he would need to lose atoms. If the mutant were to walk through the wall and interact with it, the law of conservation of momentum states that he should lose velocity, but that the mutant maintains his speed. This would break the law of conservation of momentum, so we must assume that he doesn’t interact with the wall. This also breaks the laws of physics because how could you run through a wall and not interact with it?
-The mutant named Storm is able to create a storm using just her mind, something completely impossible for your average person. Weather is affected by the sun, climate changes, and barometric pressure-- not one mutant, and in order to change those items, it would require energy on a very large scale. The feat would require Storm to create giga-watts of power, which is impossible for one person. Her body would have to act like a battery, recharging after each storm. In fact, even one thunderstorm requires massive amounts of energy-- approxomately the same amount needed to create several hydrogen bombs.
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to calculate the power of the mutant Storm from the X-Men movie (2000) releases in the creation of a tornado.
Introduction
Power is the rate at which work is done or energy is consumed. Therefore if you can find the amount of energy in a tornado you can can figure the power involved in making it if you divide the energy by the time it takes to create.
Procedure
1. Look online for the energy inside of an average tornado.
2. Watch X-Men the movie and find a scene where Storm creates a tornado.
3. Record the time it takes for her to make the tornado by either using a stopwatch or watching a timer in the bottom of screen (if available)
4. Divide the energy by the time to determine power.
Analysis
According to USA Today: Weather the average tornado releases approximately 10,000 kilowatt-hours of energy. Since one watt equals 1 joule per second we know that 1kilowatt equals 1,000 joules per second or that 1 kilowatt-hour = 1,000*60*60 = 3,600,000 joules. Therefore lets assume the tornado that Storm produces involves the release of 36 billion joules or 36 × 109 joules. Now I divide that by the time it took Storm to create a tornado, which was approximately 3 seconds. 36 billion divided by 3 is 12 billion watts.
The average person consumes 2500 food calories a day which is about 10,460,000 joules. To get the power you must divide by how many seconds there in a day, which is 86,400. 10,460 joules divided by 86,400 seconds is roughly equal to 120 watts.
Conclusion
I concluded that Storm delivers approximately 12 gigawatts of power in the creation of a tornado. Which is an incredibly large amount of power for one person to have. For comparison the power of the average person is about 120 watts making Storm about 100 million times more powerful that you or I.
Sources of Error
Some sources of error could be the fact that it is difficult to tell the actual amount of energy inside the tornado Storm makes. I found the average amount of energy in a tornado and there are many tornados which vary in strength so an exact number is hard to come by. Also it is sometimes hard to tell when exactly a tornado begins and ends so the 3 seconds I measured may be slightly off. It might have taken a bit longer or shorter to make the tornado, depending on when it started.
Matthew Michaels -- 2006
