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Units of measure for Watts (W) with examples
This page lists examples of the power in watts produced by various sources of energy . They are grouped by orders of magnitude from small to large.
Below 1 W [ edit ]
1 to 102 W [ edit ]
103 to 108 W [ edit ]
103
kilo- (kW)
1-3 × 103 W
tech: heat output of a domestic electric kettle
1.1 × 103 W
tech: power of a microwave oven
1.366 × 103 W
astro: power per square metre received from the Sun at the Earth's orbit
1.5 × 103 W
tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United States
up to 2 × 103 W
biomed: approximate short-time power output of sprinting professional cyclists and weightlifters doing snatch lifts
2.4 × 103 W
geo: average power consumption per person worldwide in 2008 (21,283 kWh/year )
3.3–6.6 × 103 W
eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of ocean[15]
3.6 × 103 W
tech: synchrotron radiation power lost per ring in the Large Hadron Collider at 7000 GeV[4]
104
1–5 × 104 W
tech: nominal power of clear channel AM [16]
1.00 × 104 W
eco: average power consumption per person in the United States in 2008 (87,216 kWh/year )
1.4 × 104 W
tech: average power consumption of an electric car on EPA 's Highway test schedule[17] [18]
1.45 × 104 W
astro: power per square metre received from the Sun at Mercury 's orbit at perihelion
1.6–3.2 × 104 W
eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of land [15]
3 × 104 W
tech: power generated by the four motors of GEN H-4 one-man helicopter
4–20 × 104 W
tech: approximate range of peak power output of typical automobiles (50-250 hp )
5–10 × 104 W
tech: highest allowed ERP for an FM band radio station in the United States[19]
105
1.67 × 105 W
tech: power consumption of UNIVAC 1 computer
2.5–8 × 105 W
tech: approximate range of power output of 'supercars ' (300 to 1000 hp )
4.5 × 105 W
tech: approximate maximum power output of a large 18-wheeler truck engine (600 hp )
106
mega- (MW)
1.3 × 106 W
tech: power output of P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft
2.0 × 106 W
tech: peak power output of GE 's standard wind turbine
2.4 × 106 W
tech: peak power output of a Princess Coronation class steam locomotive (approx 3.3K EDHP on test) (1937)
2.5 × 106 W
biomed: peak power output of a blue whale
3 × 106 W
tech: mechanical power output of a diesel locomotive
7 × 106 W
tech: mechanical power output of a Top Fuel dragster
8 × 106 W
tech: peak power output of the MHI Vestas V164 , the world's largest offshore wind turbine
107
1 × 107 W
tech: highest ERP allowed for an UHF television station
1.03 × 107 W
geo: electrical power output of Togo
1.22 × 107 W
tech: approx power available to a Eurostar 20-carriage train
1.6 × 107 W
tech: rate at which a typical gasoline pump transfers chemical energy to a vehicle
2.6 × 107 W
tech: peak power output of the reactor of a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine
7.5 × 107 W
tech: maximum power output of one GE90 jet engine as installed on the Boeing 777
108
1.4 × 108 W
tech: average power consumption of a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft
1.9 × 108 W
tech: peak power output of a Nimitz -class aircraft carrier
5 × 108 W
tech: typical power output of a Fossil fuel power station
9 × 108 W
tech: electric power output of a CANDU nuclear reactor
9.59 × 108 W
geo: average electrical power consumption of Zimbabwe in 1998
The productive capacity of electrical generators operated by utility companies is often measured in MW. Few things can sustain the transfer or consumption of energy on this scale; some of these events or entities include: lightning strikes, naval craft (such as aircraft carriers and submarines ), engineering hardware, and some scientific research equipment (such as supercolliders and large lasers ).
For reference, about 10,000 100-watt lightbulbs or 5,000 computer systems would be needed to draw 1 MW. Also, 1 MW is approximately 1360 horsepower . Modern high-power diesel-electric locomotives typically have a peak power of 3–5 MW, while a typical modern nuclear power plant produces on the order of 500–2000 MW peak output.
109 to 1014 W [ edit ]
109
giga- (GW)
1.3 × 109
tech: electric power output of Manitoba Hydro Limestone hydroelectric generating station
2.074 × 109
tech: peak power generation of Hoover Dam
2.1 × 109
tech: peak power generation of Aswan Dam
3.4 × 109
tech: estimated power consumption of the Bitcoin network in 2017[20]
4.116 × 109
tech: installed capacity of Kendal Power Station , the world's largest coal-fired power plant .
8.21 × 109
tech: capacity of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant , the world's largest Nuclear power plant.[21] [22]
1010
1.17 × 1010
tech: power produced by the Space Shuttle in liftoff configuration (9.875 GW from the SRBs; 1.9875 GW from the SSMEs.)[23]
1.26 × 1010
tech: electrical power generation of the Itaipu Dam
1.27 × 1010
geo: average electrical power consumption of Norway in 1998
1.83 × 1010
tech: peak electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam , the world's largest hydroelectric power plant of any type.
2.24 × 1010
tech: peak power of all German solar panels (at noon on a cloudless day), researched by the Fraunhofer ISE research institute in 2014[24]
5.027 × 1010
tech : peak electrical power consumption of California Independent System Operator users between 1998 and 2018, recorded at 14:44 Pacific Time , July 24, 2006.[25]
5.5 × 1010
tech : peak daily electrical power consumption of Great Britain in November 2008.[26]
7.31 × 1010
tech : total installed power capacity of Turkey on December 31, 2015.[27]
1011
1.016 × 1011
tech: peak electrical power consumption of France (February 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm)
1.66 × 1011
tech: average power consumption of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket.[28] [29]
4.33 × 1011
tech: total installed wind turbine capacity at end of 2015.[30]
7 × 1011
biomed: humankind basal metabolic rate as of 2013 (7 billion people ).
1012
tera- (TW)
2 × 1012
astro: approximate power generated between the surfaces of Jupiter and its moon Io due to Jupiter's tremendous magnetic field.[31]
3.34 × 1012
geo: average total (gas, electricity, etc.) power consumption of the US in 2005[32]
1013
1.91 × 1013
tech: average total power consumption of the human world in 2019.[33]
4.7 × 1013
geo: average total heat flow at Earth's surface which originates from its interior .[34] Main sources are roughly equal amounts of radioactive decay and residual heat from Earth's formation .[35]
5–20 × 1013
weather: rate of heat energy release by a hurricane [citation needed ]
1014
1.4 × 1014
eco: global net primary production (= biomass production) via photosynthesis [36]
2.9 × 1014
tech: the power the Z machine reaches in 1 billionth of a second when it is fired[citation needed ]
3 × 1014
weather: Hurricane Katrina's rate of release of latent heat energy into the air.[37]
3 × 1014
tech: power reached by the extremely high-power Hercules laser from the University of Michigan .[citation needed ]
4.6 × 1014
geo: estimated rate of net global heating, evaluated as Earth's energy imbalance , from 2005 to 2019.[38] [39] The rate of ocean heat uptake approximately doubled over this period.[40]
1015 to 1026 W [ edit ]
1015
peta-
~2 × 1.00 × 1015 W
tech: Omega EP laser power at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics . There are two separate beams that are combined.
1.4 × 1015 W
geo: estimated heat flux transported by the Gulf Stream .
5 × 1015 W
geo: estimated net heat flux transported from Earth's equator and towards each pole. Value is a latitudinal maximum arising near 40° in each hemisphere.[41] [42]
7 × 1015 W
tech: worlds most powerful laser in operation (claimed on February 7, 2019, by Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) at Magurele , Romania)[43]
1016
1.03 × 1016 W
tech: world's most powerful laser pulses (claimed on October 24, 2017, by SULF of Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics ).[44]
1–10 × 1016 W
tech: estimated total power output of a Type-I civilization on the Kardashev scale .[45]
1017
1.73 × 1017 W
astro: total power received by Earth from the Sun [46]
2 × 1017 W
tech : planned peak power of Extreme Light Infrastructure laser[47]
1018
exa- (EW)
In a keynote presentation, NIF & Photon Science Chief Technology Officer Chris Barty described the "Nexawatt" Laser, an exawatt (1,000-petawatt) laser concept based on NIF technologies, on April 13 at the SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2015 Conference in Prague. Barty also gave an invited talk on "Laser-Based Nuclear Photonics" at the SPIE meeting.[48]
1021
zetta- (ZW)
1023
1.35 × 1023 W
astro: approximate luminosity of Wolf 359
1024
yotta- (YW)
5.3 × 1024 W
tech: estimated power of the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb detonation[49]
1025
1–10 × 1025 W
tech: estimated total power output of a Type-II civilization on the Kardashev scale .[45]
1026
3.846 × 1026 W
astro: luminosity of the Sun
Over 1027 W [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
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