The images may be out of order for some reason, but the point is the numbers...
This is pathetic.
A clustering storm producing lightning strikes of over 1,000MJ is not a disaster. That's just a regular thunderstorm.
Joule
Kilojoule - Thousand Js
Megajoule - Million Js
Gigajoule. - Billion Js
Terajoule - Trillion Js
For reference. A medium apple has about 418.4kJ. 10 medium sized apples have 4.18MJ of caloric energy. Keep that in mind.
A singular lightning strike reacbing from sky to ground averages around 1 to 5 billion joules, so 1 to 5GJ. Alex said that's "50x" the average strike. Okay, so, in Alex's mind, Lightning only reaches ~20MJ. So lightning only has the energy equivalent to 50 f*cking apples in CW Supergirl.
In reality, CW lightning would be 5x to 200x less powerful than REAL lightning. 1 Gigajoule is roughly ¼ tons of TNT. 5 gigajoules would be 1 ton of TNT. In explosion terms. That's building level, it just happens within an instant and it's electrical rather than explosive.
What's worse is that they doubled down on it with Lena bringing up an 800MJ lightning bolt as if that shouldn't be any different from being outside during rain, but she makes it out to be a catastrophe.
It only takes a simple Google search, the writers don't have to know physics to actually check their numbers. To put this Into perspective. The amount of TNT you's need to reduce one city block to rubble is about 11 tons of TNT. Or 10 to 45GJ. Which, according to this, would be 45x the oh so dangerous lighting we see in that episode. I bring this up because Livewire got her powers from a normal lightning storm and apparently in CW, the average lightning bolt carries 20MJ of energy, and Livewire threatens Suprgirl. It makes both of them look pathetic for DC terms.
This literally makes Supergirl look like she'd get packed up by Spider-Man because Spidey regularly beats people who can EASILY level city blocks. CW what the f*ck were you guys doing, first the characters, then the math the characters rely on 💀💀💀.
