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A single hurricane can release more energy in a day than the entire world uses in a year

Modern wind-turbine blades can stretch longer than a football field

A fingertip-sized pellet of nuclear fuel holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

Solar panels still generate power on cloudy days, just less of it

A nuclear-powered submarine can stay underwater for months, limited mainly by its food supply

More than a dozen tornadoes tore through Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin on Thursday

An 11-gigawatt Texas megacomplex will run on four new nuclear reactors plus gas, solar and wind

Thursday’s tornadoes left 101 flooded basements and 673 downed traffic signals across Chicago

Damaging 60 mph winds threaten 23 million people from Washington to Norfolk into Sunday

The U.S. grid keeps its alternating current humming at a steady 60 cycles per second

One large wind turbine can power roughly a thousand homes in a steady breeze

Grid electricity has to be used almost the instant it is generated

Enough sunlight strikes Earth in a single hour to power the whole world for a year

A single average thunderstorm cloud can hold more water than a million pounds

The Philippines kept Mayon at Alert Level 3 as eruptions ringed the Pacific this week

Tropical Storm Cristina is dumping up to a foot of rain on Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador

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