Cameron's flagship EU referendum Bill hit by warning it is not legally binding and next government could just ignore it. 1  Tory plan to be debated on Friday but Labour and Lib Dems boycott vote. 2  James Wharton's backbench Bill promises a referendum by the end of 2017.
Photo: A lightning bolt is a huge release of static electricity, in which built-up electrical potential energy shoots from the sky to the ground in a sudden, improvised, electric current. Picture by David Parsons courtesy of US DOE/NREL (Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory).
You are comparing apples and oranges in your question. Potential (can have) and kinetic (DOES have) energy is dependent upon different things. A bullet (very small mass) sitting on a table has the POTENTIAL energy to fall to the floor if the table is moved; that same bullet, with adequate velocity, has ENORMOUS potential to put a large hole in you.