Calc - Larklight - Thunderhead creates moon-sized fires

Larklight said:
We were far from the light of sun or star by then, and these electric fires were the sole source of illumination, a crackly, gothick glare that made Jack and I look like phantoms. A pillar of cloud, boiling up from the depths, formed itself into a flat, white plateau ahead of the ship, and drifting balls of fire as big as moons ignited in the air above it. The Uncrushable steered towards it, and we all stumbled as she set down.

'We have landed!' cried Jack. 'But how can we land upon a cloud?'

'Old Thunderhead has ways and means,' said Captain Gruel. 'He can alter the pressure inhere, change the makeup of the air, do what he pleases. This is what we call the trading floor.

Jupiter is mostly hydrogen, so they'd likely weigh as much as hydrogen. Radius of the Moon is 1737km.

V = 4/3πr^3
= 4/3 X π X 1737^3
= 2.19527062e10km^3
= 2.19527062e+19m^3

Hydrogen weighs 0.0899^2kg per m^3.

M = 2.19527062e+19 X 0.0899^2
= 1.77421991e17kg

The heat of combustion of hydrogen is 144000 kilojoules/kg.

E = 1.77421991e17 X 144000
= 2.55487667e22 kilojoules
= 6.10630179254 petatons

Final Results
Thunderhead creates moon-sized fires = 6.106 petatons

Calc Larklight - Thunderhead creates moon-sized fires

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