🔹️  Provisionally, I'll say Metropolis

       can deliver 2, 525 TerraWatts

       peak. AND THAT'S JUST THE ROBOT.

 

🔸️  Taking the average power of a

       hyperweather (HW) lightning bolt to be 1 TerraWatt (1×10¹² Watts), Rotwang's Robot has a peak (max) power output that is 2, 525 times the power of an average HW lightning bolt.

[The above (and below) figures were chosen for comparison - and other entertainment - purposes; like in movies. You can have a lot of fun with statistics. Don't let statistics concerning lightning escape your attention. Explore them.]

 

🔹️  The average power of a (non-HW)

       lightning bolt is estimated to be around 10 gigawatts (10 billion watts). This is a huge amount of power, significantly higher than what humans use on a daily basis. 

 

Here's a more detailed breakdown.

 

🔹️  Current and Voltage:

▪️  A typical lightning flash carries about

       30,000 amps of charge and has 300 million volts of electric potential. 

 

🔹️  Energy:

▪️  A lightning bolt can release about 5

       billion joules of energy, which is equivalent to 215 kilowatt-hours (kWh). 

 

🔹️  Comparison:

▪️  This amount of energy is comparable

       to a 100-watt light bulb burning for

       over three months.

 

🔹️  Heat:

▪️  Lightning can generate

       temperatures up to 50,000°F (27, 760°C), five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

 

🔹️  Duration:

▪️  A lightning strike typically lasts

       for a very short duration, around 30 microseconds.

 

🔹️  An average lightning strike carries

       about 15🎈 Coulombs of electric charge. However, this can vary depending on the strength and type of lightning, with larger bolts potentially carrying up to 350 Coulombs.

 

Standard Unit Loading And Power.

 

🔹️   USB 3.0 defines a 'standard unit load'

        (SUL) as 150 (2×75 = 2℧ = ᘯ⊕℧ = ᘯ℧ = ᔐ) mA, whereas USB 2.0 defines it as 100 mA. A high-power USB 3.0 device can draw up to 6 unit loads (900 mA).

 

🔸️  So, with a USB connection, a 1kB

       information packet could be delivered to a device in a microsecond using a signal ᔐ of 1 SUL at 5 V. Note that the power of this ᔐ is 0.75 = (0℧ or) 0ᘯ Watts. With only a very short data burst at peak HW power, Rotwang's Robot could simultaneously instruct ~ 1,333,333,333,333.3ᐓ devices.

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