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If you wade through the gobbledy-goop on the page, the author of the page has worked with high tension powerlines or something like that for 27 years. His guess on what's going on there is probably sound, so based on his hypothesis and the numbers therein you can get an idea of how much power is being released there.
He estimates that the lines are 500KV lines (s'right kids, 500,000 Volts) which run up to 2000 amperes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong because it's been a few years since my last electronics class, but simple electronics know how tells us that voltage x current = power. 500,000V x 2000A = 1,000,000,000W.
One. Billion. Watts.
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