Potential Energy. . .
(Potential Energy. . .) Call it a "physics," package. Anybody who has studied that topic and who perhaps dreaded the class in high school, should remember that, when it comes to energy. one starts with two kinds. The first is "potential" energy. That is what something has when it is staying still. When it starts to move, however, it then becomes what is called "kinetic" energy. Those are the basics. Energy be released in various levels. The biggest would-be nuclear explosions and nuclear reactors. These explosions and reactions run on the principle of nuclear fission, where a heavy element, like Uranium or Plutonium. Basically, a quantity of each substance goes through a chain reaction. Like a set of dominos gets toppled. As the reaction progresses. a lot of energy is released. It was this energy that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, there was always a look for a bigger bang for the buck. That is how the hydrogen bomb, or thermonuclear weapon, that o...