Originally posted by spetznaz
Well, I can see your point about a thunderstorm having the energy of a thermonuclear detonation. I see where you are coming from.The problem is that you are talking about potential energy ....for instance, a human being (one human) if his mass was converted into energy could power an average sized city (never did say how large an 'average sized city' was, but one can assume it is not exactly one Bangladeshi village) for a while. A piece of toast has more energy than a car moving at 30mph.
Anyways, potential energy is different from actual energy.
The splitting of an atom (for fission), or the fusion of atoms (fusion) detonations are incredulously powerful.
Take Hurricane Katrina ....that hurricane had more than enough energy than many many Hiroshima sized explosions, and you saw what it did to N.O. Ravaged that city big time.
However, even with that said, imagine if i had set off 4 Hiroshima size fission devices (rather small and simple 'gun' atomic weapons that are quite weak compared to the thermonuclear types available today). The amount of damage wrought on NO would be stupendous, even though Katrina packed a greater energy (potential and dynamic) than the atomics. The released yield (which is the crucial thing) from the atomics would simply reduce the city to rubble for the most part.... (it is all about released yield ....for instance, a small shaped HEAT charge will mess up a tank when a simple H-E charge 5 times its size will not penetrate the armor).
It is also the reason why the US Military was pushing for small thermonuclear bombs to be used as ways of bombing deeply buried sites (e.g. the North Korean and Iranian bunkers that are buried deep within the earth in the case of the Iranians, or in mountains for the NKs, that are impervious to non-nuclear penetrators). A small nuke would cause so much energy in that area that the level of overpressure would simply cause the entire complex to collapse on itself.
On the other hand, you could have a thousand Katrina size hurricanes pound the mountains above the North Korean complex, and the N.Ks in the bases underneath the mountains would not feel a thing. They wouldn't even know hurricanes were above them. Yet, on PAPER, the Hurricanes pack more energy than the nuclear bunker-buster (the project was 'reportedly' cancelled last year, but I find that hard to believe because the Us military would get rid of the only effective weapon they have to reach bunkers buried in mountain complexes, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Israelis also have something similar).
Anyways, the potential and dynamic energies in a lot of natural phenomena can be astounding. For instance many tornados above F1 (the old Fujita scale ....I'm not yet conversant with the new scale) have numbers that are above a good many thermonuclear weapons.
However, have that tornado go through Oklahoma city and see what happens (if it is an F5 like the one that went through OK in 1999, and it goes through OKC instead of through the small towns and settlements, it would cause all the glass to shatter, would cause severe damage to several skyscrapers, and overall set back the budget of the State of Oklahoma, and the Federal Government, sveeral billions when it comes to rebuilding). And an F5 would have more potential and dynamic enerugy than many thermonuclear devices (i am talking real fusion devices and not rudimentary gun-type fission devices like the Hiroshima bomb)
Thus, it would do damage.
Now, what would happen if i put ONE 10 Kiloton device in OKC, and have it detonate a thousand feet in the air?
OKC would be totally finished!
Its yield may (looking at only numbers) be 'less' than that of a F-5 tornado, but its effect (which is the important thing) would be many times greater. Great enough that (unlike the Tornado) there would be nothing for the OK State and the Fed to rebuild.
Thanx for your reply but Storm doesn't just manipulate the "yield". she creates the Storm and manipulates the yeild using only her mind.
So far I've read two "scientific" hypothesesis about how much power it would take for Storm to do that and they both corrobrate that t would take an ridiculos amount of power.
She doesn't have magical plot device or tech doing all the work. She does it through some sort of specialize telekensis that is adapted to, and is a specialize mutation that deals with kenetic energy(temperature), electromagnetism/electrons, and water and whatever else it takes to make a "storm" or any other weather effect or that "feeds" the weather and the biospshere of whatever planet she's on, in space or whatever. She can even channel the potential energy of the storm through her body.😬
My thing is, with that same "mind" that she uses t do all that stuff, that nuke and magneto Storm in the magneto arc should be nothing, especially when overpressure that causes the blast wave is so very closely related to weather phenomena.
And she also summoned millions of suns once and channeld them through her body.
I also think there's is an instance where she chanelled the potential energy of a Storm into herself, and then Polaris causing her to shoot down in the 4,000 miles of earth's Crust.
I also don't see any logical reason why she couldn't create her own nuclear fusion/fission.
