Talk:The Storm

Power issues
I belive Carter stated that Merlins phasing device needed 80% of Usa's power to cloak the entire planet. This also seemed to be significantly less than what the chair needed. If I'm not misstaken, the chair only needed one mark-whatever generator to function, which clearly wasn't enough to dial the gate from the milky way to pegasus. The city sheild required even more power. Anyway, my point is, even a large lightning storm wouldn't be able to get the chair going, even less power the sheild. An average lightning only discharges 500 megajoules of energy, the Us genrates about 2693,8 mw at any given time.

People overestimate lightnings....