Can you live if you get hit by 200000 watts of energy and have rubber in your pocket?

Answer 1

"Watts" is not a quantity of energy. It's a rateat which energy flows in or out,

changes from one form to another, or moves from one place to another.

200,000 watts is about the same rate of energy transfer as

-- a 220-lb man being lifted straight up in an elevator, or falling from an airplane,

at 207 miles per hour ! Apollo or Shuttle astronauts probably did this.

-- eating 4.13 million Calories in a day ! Certainly nobody ever did this.

-- pulling the plug on the world's biggest Christmas tree ... the one with

2,000 hundred-watt light bulbs in it ... and then running the exact same

amount of electricity through your body ! Not a smart idea.

(A thought: In order to supply 200,000 watts from a standard household outlet

at 117 VAC, you'd need to draw 1,709 Amps. Ignore, for a moment, the fact that

you would blow not only the main fuses in your house but probably also the pole-

transformer that's supplying your entire block. It's useful to recognize that this

amount of current is far exceeded in the channel of a lightning bolt ... not for long,

but definitely by a bunch ... and when that channel includes a human being, it's

always fatal, with no question.)

However you go at this question, the rubber in your pocket isn't relevant at all.