I've been trying to get into the Green Lantern and have been reading the main title and Green Lantern Corps since the end of Blackest Night. I understand nothing really 'big' as far as universe ending peril has happened but I need your help understanding something.  
 
I often hear people compare the GLs to the Silver Surfer as far as power sets. As many of you know, I'm a big Silver Surfer fan. Reading the current GL books does not give me the impression that a GL is anywhere near the same level of power as the Silver Surfer, or even has any abilities that can compare, besides super speed and constructs (most of which seem a little corny and do not impress me).  But, like I said, nothing really huge has happened since I started reading. 
 
This isn't a battle. I don't want replies on who would win in a fight. I have the battle forums for that. What I want is you to post some awesome feats of the Green Lanterns (or other spectrums Lanterns, if you choose) so I can see why they are considered some of the most powerful beings in the DC universe.  

Kilowog uses his construct to lift an aircraft carrier. Smaller Wasp class and Tarawa class aircraft carriers weight about 40,000 long tons (which this appears to be).

@jloneblackheart: Well here are some feats, dont think many of this would put them above Surfer though.

Green Lantern Emerald Dawn 3 and 4: Hal Jordan takes a nuke to the face and there is no visiable damage to be seen

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Green Lantern Volume 4, Issue 03: Another nuke durability feat for Hal

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Moving on to my personal favorite Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

Green Lantern Volume 3 175: Kyle Rayner bends an attack from a quantum singularity with little trouble

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Dc One Million 04: Contains a Supernova

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Green Lantern Volume 3, 166: Holds quantum black holes within a construct (it has 79 black holes)

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Green Lantern Volume 3, 167: Contains the explosion of many black holes

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Green Lantern Volume 3, Issue 0 : This is a part of Zero Hour Story arc and Kyle fights Parallax (before he reaches 0 hour power level) does extremely well against him, and in the end blows up a planet (OA). Also given the fact that at his power level (without COIE amp) Parallax outside Zero Hour has soloed Justice League, beaten an Extra dimensional entity called Sun eater against whom entire DC Earth (JLA, JSA, Outsiders , Teen Titans as well as few New Gods as well as some members of LOSH) were totally helpless and gone up against and done really well against Spectre, even ripped his face off, i think this feat is pretty awesome =)

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Unfortunately due to scans limit i am not posting a lot of more feats. But here's Kyle upgrade and now can weild willpower, love and rage.

Green Lantern New Guardians 13

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hope this helps =)

@Killemall: Awesome. Much better feats than I knew of. I always liked Kyle the best.

In the last scans though, I don't see him using the love spectrum, but he does use the hope spectrum of the Blue Lantern Corps. I don't know how blue and red work together, but if he has blue he should constantly be at 200% power as a green lantern.

@jloneblackheart: No problem. I need to get the scan from the last issue where he controls the love spectrum, and i have been told he learns to control yellow and indigo in the next issue, 14, which i have not yet read.

He probably could, not sure where they are going with this or why amp Kyle so much. I for one do not think this is going to be a permanent thing and will be retconned out sooner or later.

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Green Lantern Corps: Recharge issue #2 Another feat from Kil, he saves a large medical vessel ship from a black hole with his will.

@jloneblackheart:

I decided to post that scan, since it's a bit similar to the one you posted.

Hal recreates Coast City from memory

The 40 ton Carrier is impressive, but Hal moved two planets. But the most impressive feat is John Stewart recreating a SOLAR SYSTEM, only to have the ring say John's willpower exceeds the limits of the limitless ring...that is the single most impressive above anything Silver Surfer has ever done move period...Yes Surfer is impressive, but The ring is among the most powerful weapons in the universe, while the wearer's will and background shapes the ring. No doubt Silver Surfer is formidable for anyone including a Green Lantern, but the Green Lanterns usually travel in at least two's which would be far to great of a power force for Surfer to overcome, and If it were Surfer and Stewart one on one I'm going with John Stewart. You do not get near the power that he has watching the animated series because the show would end right away if he used all his powers to include the power of thought...

Green Lantern power sampling: A Green Lantern's ring, considered by some to be one of the most powerful weapons in the known universe, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe, including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force. It is also theorized that the ring also has a basis in other dimensional energies commonly called magic by users of such energies. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that is bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user. Some of the abilities that a Green Lantern Ring has shown are:

Gravity is the key here, for Surfer and his board would be slowed to a crawl...His arms would weigh far to much to swing and with a thought a Green Lantern could take him down...Keep in mind when Green Lantern imposes Gravity on Surfer, he doesn't have to impose it on himself...So he would be in a normal state and Surfer would be fighting gravity while trying to overcome the most powerful weapon in the universe...

• John Stewart’s power ring provides him with the abilities of all other Green Lanterns; these abilities include flight and limited invulnerability.
• In Green Lantern (vol. 4) #26, it was shown that John's willpower exceeds the limit of his ring (when he tried to recreate a solar system from scratch), a feat that had not been depicted before this point.

As well as his obvious powers as a Lantern, John has recently begun to demonstrate an ability to kill when he is certain the situation requires it, destroying Mogo in order to save the universe from the army of Krona-controlled Green Lanterns that Mogo would have created and later killing a fellow Lantern who was about to give in to torture and reveal vital information to their enemies.

I have to say DC saying the Green Lantern can bring anything they can imagine to the fight but Kryptoine stinks of let's protect Superman, when he is on their side. Superman can't defeat a Green lantern period I mean a Green Lantern can trap him inside their ring under a Red Sun and he is done. So removing the ability to produce Kryptonite is just childish...

This one seems dead too.

@killemall: May i ask do you know this, do green latners have good durability like thor for example, or are are they more like classic doctor strange and franklin richards, you know , they have normal human durability but have autoshields that blocks any attack and protects them all the time .