The Alaska Geographic quarterly Aurora Borealis —The Amazing Northern Lights, published in 1979, reports that “the electrical power associated with the auroral discharge is enormous, about 1,000 billion watts, or annual 9,000 billion kilowatt hours— more than the present annual U.S. electric power consumption, which is a little less than 1,000 billion kilowatt hours!”
Die Alaska Geographic se kwartaalblad Aurora Borealis—The Amazing Northern Lights, wat in 1979 uitgegee is, berig dat “die elektriese krag wat met die ontlading van die aurora gepaardgaan geweldig is, sowat 1000 miljard watt, of ’n jaarlikse totaal van 9000 miljard kilowatt-uur—meer as die Verenigde State se huidige jaarlikse elektrisiteitsverbruik, wat ’n bietjie minder as 1000 miljard kilowatt-uur is!”jw2019 jw2019