{"id":91778,"date":"2019-06-08T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/fossil-study-finds-lightning-is-strong-enough-to-power-a-billion-homes"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:05:48","slug":"fossil-study-finds-lightning-is-strong-enough-to-power-a-billion-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/fossil-study-finds-lightning-is-strong-enough-to-power-a-billion-homes","title":{"rendered":"Fossil study finds lightning is strong enough to power a billion homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-study-finds-lightning-is-strong-enough-to-power-a-billion-homes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An expert from the University of South Florida deduced how big a bolt of lightning was based on the size of rocks formed by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>When lightning strikes sand it creates a new type of rock, called fulgurite \u2013 a hollow tube formed as the lightning travels through the sand, vaporizing it and melting its outer edges.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers determined that on average, the energy required to form these rocks was at least about one megajoule per meter of fulgurite formed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4018126\/amp\/How-powerful-lightning-strike-Rock-study-finds-power-BILLION-homes-millionths-second.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert from the University of South Florida deduced how big a bolt of lightning was based on the size of rocks formed by lightning. When lightning strikes sand it creates a new type of rock, called fulgurite \u2013 a hollow tube formed as the lightning travels through the sand, vaporizing it and melting its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}