Ghazan is incredibly powerful, literally (read the comments)

While watching S.3 Ep.13 (LoK), I realized how incredibly powerful Ghazan must be to be able to partially melt a mountain within approximately 10 seconds and tried to calculate it:

According to my estimations (volume of the molten rock und the mountain) he can output between 40 to 80 TW!!!!!

To give a everybody an idea of what that equates to, an average nuclear power plant outputs about 1400 MW. This means that Ghazan has (for a short time) the power of up to about 56 THOUSAND average nuclear power plants.

Another comparison would be the amount of energy that it takes to melt that amount of rock compared to a nuclear explosion. I would take about 156 Hiroshima bombs to release as much energy as Ghazan did.

If you calculate it yourself your answer may differ quite a bit from mine. It is pretty much impossible to know the exact density and specific heat capacity and the exact temperature of the molten rock and how much energy was absorbed by the unmolten core of the mountain and also the actual dimensions of the mountain. I tried my best to estimate and compare it to real life examples.

TLDR: Ghazan = 56k nuclear powerplants

You do have a point. He did singlehandedly destroy one of the walls of Ba Sing Se, a task past accomplished through a lengthy siege, a giant drill, and a large group of Dai Li

I feel like he’s overlooked most of the time, he’s badass though

Seeing as lava is basically fire + earth it is a perfect example of the lecture Jeong Jeong gave Aang about fire needing a bender to keep it in check or it will run wild and out of control.

I think he can the most destruction than anyone in the avatar world with exception to a powerful firebender during Sozin’s comet.

He and Ming Hua are my favorite members of the Red Lotus

very intersting is 1 of my favorite characters from the avatar world but i dont waited that