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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
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1 to 102 W
103 to 108 W
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kilo- (kW)
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1–3 × 103 W
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tech: heat output of a domestic electric kettle
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| 1.1 × 103 W
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tech: power of a microwave oven
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| 1.366 × 103 W
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astro: power per square meter received from the Sun at the Earth's orbit
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| 1.5 × 103 W
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tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United States
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| up to 2 × 103 W
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biomed: approximate short-time power output of sprinting professional cyclists and weightlifters doing snatch lifts
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| 2.4 × 103 W
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geo: average power consumption per person worldwide in 2008 (21,283 kWh/year)
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| 3.3–6.6 × 103 W
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eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of ocean[23]
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| 3.6 × 103 W
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tech: synchrotron radiation power lost per ring in the Large Hadron Collider at 7000 GeV[6]
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| 104
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1–5 × 104 W
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tech: nominal power of clear channel AM[24]
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| 1.00 × 104 W
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eco: average power consumption per person in the United States in 2008 (87,216 kWh/year)
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| 1.4 × 104 W
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tech: average power consumption of an electric car on EPA's Highway test schedule[25][26]
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| 1.45 × 104 W
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astro: power per square metre received from the Sun at Mercury's orbit at perihelion
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| 1.6–3.2 × 104 W
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eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of land[23]
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| 3 × 104 W
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tech: power generated by the four motors of GEN H-4 one-man helicopter
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| 4–20 × 104 W
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tech: approximate range of peak power output of typical automobiles (50-250 hp)
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| 5–10 × 104 W
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tech: highest allowed ERP for an FM band radio station in the United States[27]
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| 105
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1.67 × 105 W
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tech: power consumption of UNIVAC 1 computer
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| 2.5–8 × 105 W
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tech: approximate range of power output of 'supercars' (300 to 1000 hp)
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| 4.5 × 105 W
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tech: approximate maximum power output of a large 18-wheeler truck engine (600 hp)
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mega- (MW)
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1.03 × 106 W
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tech: approximate maximum power output of BMW M12/13/1 Formula One engine in qualifying trim (1400 hp)
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| 1.3 × 106 W
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tech: power output of P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft
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| 1.9 × 106 W
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astro: power per square meter potentially received by Earth at the peak of the Sun's red giant phase
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| 2.0 × 106 W
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tech: peak power output of GE's standard wind turbine
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| 2.4 × 106 W
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tech: peak power output of a Princess Coronation class steam locomotive (approx 3.3K EDHP on test) (1937)
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| 2.5 × 106 W
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biomed: peak power output of a blue whaleTemplate:Citation needed
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| 3 × 106 W
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tech: mechanical power output of a diesel locomotive
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| 4.4 × 106 W
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tech: total mechanical power output of Titanic's coal-fueled steam engines[28]
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| 7 × 106 W
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tech: mechanical power output of a Top Fuel dragster
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| 8 × 106 W
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tech: peak power output of the MHI Vestas V164, the world's largest offshore wind turbine
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1 × 107 W
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tech: highest ERP allowed for an UHF television station
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| 1.03 × 107 W
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geo: electrical power output of Togo
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| 1.22 × 107 W
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tech: approx power available to a Eurostar 20-carriage train
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| 1.5 × 107 W
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tech: electrical power consumption of Sunway TaihuLight, the most powerful supercomputer in China
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| 1.6 × 107 W
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tech: rate at which a typical gasoline pump transfers chemical energy to a vehicle
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| 2.6 × 107 W
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tech: peak power output of the reactor of a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine
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| 7.5 × 107 W
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tech: maximum power output of one GE90 jet engine as installed on the Boeing 777
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| 1.4 × 108 W
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tech: average power consumption of a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft
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| 1.9 × 108 W
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tech: peak power output of a Template:Sclass
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| 5 × 108 W
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tech: typical power output of a fossil fuel power station
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| 9 × 108 W
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tech: electric power output of a CANDU nuclear reactor
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| 9.59 × 108 W
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geo: average electrical power consumption of Zimbabwe in 1998
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| 9.86 × 108 W
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astro: approximate solar power received by the dwarf planet Sedna at its aphelion (937 AU)
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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
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giga- (GW)
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1.3 × 109
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tech: electric power output of Manitoba Hydro Limestone hydroelectric generating station
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| 2.074 × 109
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tech: peak power generation of Hoover Dam
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| 2.1 × 109
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tech: peak power generation of Aswan Dam
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| 3.4 × 109
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tech: estimated power consumption of the Bitcoin network in 2017[29]
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| 4.116 × 109
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tech: installed capacity of Kendal Power Station, the world's largest coal-fired power plant.
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| 5.824 × 109
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tech: installed capacity of the Taichung Power Plant, the largest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan and fourth largest of its kind. It was the single most polluting power plant on Earth in 2009.[30][31]
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| 7.965 × 109
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tech: installed capacity of the largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, before it was shut down in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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| 1010
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1.17 × 1010
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tech: power produced by the Space Shuttle in liftoff configuration (9.875 GW from the SRBs; 1.9875 GW from the SSMEs.)[32]
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| 1.26 × 1010
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tech: electrical power generation of the Itaipu Dam
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| 1.27 × 1010
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geo: average electrical power consumption of Norway in 1998
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| 2.25 × 1010
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tech: peak electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam, the power plant with the world's largest generating capacity of any type.[33]
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| 2.24 × 1010
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tech: peak power of all German solar panels (at noon on a cloudless day), researched by the Fraunhofer ISE research institute in 2014[34]
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| 5.027 × 1010
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tech: peak electrical power consumption of California Independent System Operator users between 1998 and 2018, recorded at 14:44 Pacific Time, July 24, 2006.[35]
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| 5.22 × 1010
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tech: China total nuclear power capacity as of 2022.[36]
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| 5.5 × 1010
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tech: peak daily electrical power consumption of Great Britain in November 2008.[37]
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| 7.31 × 1010
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tech: total installed power capacity of Turkey on December 31, 2015.[38]
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| 9.55 × 1010
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tech: United States total nuclear power capacity as of 2022.[36]
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| 1011
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tech: peak electrical power consumption of France (February 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm)
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| 1.12 × 1011
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tech: United States total installed solar capacity as of 2022.[39]
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| 1.41 × 1011
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tech: United States total wind turbine capacity in 2022.[39]
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| 1.66 × 1011
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tech: average power consumption of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket.[40][41]
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| 3.66 × 1011
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tech: China total wind turbine capacity in 2022.[39]
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| 3.92 × 1011
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tech: China total installed solar capacity as of 2022.[39]
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| 7 × 1011
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biomed: humankind basal metabolic rate as of 2013 (7 billion people).
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| 8.99 × 1011
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tech: worldwide wind turbine capacity at end of 2022.[39]
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tera- (TW)
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1.062 × 1012
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tech: worldwide installed solar capacity at end of 2022.[39]
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| 2 × 1012
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astro: approximate power generated between the surfaces of Jupiter and its moon Io due to Jupiter's tremendous magnetic field.[42]
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| 3.34 × 1012
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geo: average total (gas, electricity, etc.) power consumption of the US in 2005[43]
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| 1013
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2.04 × 1013
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tech: average rate of power consumption of humanity over 2022.[44]
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| 4.7 × 1013
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geo: average total heat flow at Earth's surface which originates from its interior.[45] Main sources are roughly equal amounts of radioactive decay and residual heat from Earth's formation.[46]
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| 8.8 × 1013
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astro: luminosity per square meter of the hottest normal star known, WR 102
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| 5–20 × 1013
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weather: rate of heat energy release by a hurricaneTemplate:Citation needed
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1.4 × 1014
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eco: global net primary production (= biomass production) via photosynthesis[47]
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| 2.9 × 1014
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tech: the power the Z machine reaches in 1 billionth of a second when it is firedTemplate:Citation needed
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| 3 × 1014
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weather: Hurricane Katrina's rate of release of latent heat energy into the air.[48]
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| 3 × 1014
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tech: power reached by the extremely high-power Hercules laser from the University of Michigan.Template:Citation needed
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| 4.6 × 1014
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geo: estimated rate of net global heating, evaluated as Earth's energy imbalance, from 2005 to 2019.[49][50] The rate of ocean heat uptake approximately doubled over this period.[51]
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1015 to 1029 W
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peta- (PW)
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tech: Omega EP laser power at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. There are two separate beams that are combined.
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| 1.4 × 1015 W
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geo: estimated heat flux transported by the Gulf Stream.
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| 5 × 1015 W
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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.[52][53]
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| 7 × 1015 W
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tech: the world's most powerful laser in operation (claimed on February 7, 2019, by Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) at Magurele, Romania)[54]
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| 1016
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1.03 × 1016 W
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tech: world's most powerful laser pulses (claimed on October 24, 2017, by SULF of Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics).[55]
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| 1–10 × 1016 W
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tech: estimated total power output of a Type-I civilization on the Kardashev scale.[56]
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| 1017
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1.73 × 1017 W
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astro: total power received by Earth from the Sun[57]
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| 2 × 1017 W
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tech: planned peak power of Extreme Light Infrastructure laser[58]
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| 4.6 × 1017 W
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astro: total internal heat flux of Jupiter[59]
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exa- (EW)
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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.[60]
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zetta- (ZW)
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| 1022
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5.31 × 1022 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of 2MASS J0523−1403, the least luminous star known.[61]
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| 1023
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4.08 × 1023 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Wolf 359
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yotta- (YW)
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5.3 × 1024 W
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tech: estimated peak power of the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb detonation[62]
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| 9.8 × 1024 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Sirius B, Sirius's white dwarf companion.[63][64]
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| 1026
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1 × 1026 W
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tech: power generating capacity of a Type-II civilization on the Kardashev scale.[56]
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| 1.87 × 1026 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Tau Ceti, the nearest solitary G-type star.
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| 3.828 × 1026 W
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astro: luminosity of the Sun,[65] our home star
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| 7.67 × 1026 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Alpha Centauri, the closest (triple) star system.[66]
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| 1027
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ronna- (RW)
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9.77 × 1027 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Sirius, the visibly brightest star as viewed from Earth.[67]
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| 1028
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6.51 × 1028 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Arcturus, a solar-mass red giant[68]
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Over 1029 W
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quetta- (QW)
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1.99 × 1030 W
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astro: peak luminosity of the Sun in its thermally-pulsing, late AGB phase (≈5200x present)[69]
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| 4.1 × 1030 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Canopus[70]
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| 1031
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2.53 × 1031 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Beta Centauri triple star system[71]
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| 3.3 × 1031 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Betelgeuse, a highly evolved red supergiant
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| 1032
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1.23 × 1032 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of Deneb
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1.26 × 1033 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Pistol Star, an LBV which emits in 10 seconds the Sun's annual energy output
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| 1.79 × 1033 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of R136a1,[72] a massive Wolf-Rayet star and the most luminous single star known
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| 2.1 × 1033 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Eta Carinae system,[73] a highly elliptical binary of two supergiant blue stars orbiting each other
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| 1034
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4 × 1034 W
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tech: approximate power used by a type III civilization in the Kardashev scale.[56]
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5.7 × 1036 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Milky Way galaxy[74][75]
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| 1037
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2 × 1037 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Local Group, the volume enclosed by our gravitational cosmic horizon[76][77]
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| 4 × 1037 W
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astro: approximate internal luminosity of the Sun for a few seconds as it undergoes a helium flash.[78][79]
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| 4.3 × 1037 W
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astro: Peak luminosity of the most energetic supernova ever known, SN 2016aps[80]
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| 1038
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~2.2 × 1038 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the extremely luminous supernova ASASSN-15lh[81][82]
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1 × 1039 W
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astro: average luminosity of a quasar
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| 1.57 × 1039 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of 3C273, the brightest quasar seen from Earth[83]
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| 1040
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5 × 1040 W
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astro: approximate peak luminosity of the energetic fast blue optical transient CSS161010[84]
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| 1041
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1 × 1041 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the most luminous quasars in our universe, e.g., APM 08279+5255 and HS 1946+7658.[85]
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1.7 × 1042 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of the Laniakea Supercluster[86][87]
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| ~3.2 × 1042 W
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astro: approximate luminosity of an average gamma-ray burst[88]
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| 1043
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2.2 × 1043 W
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astro: average stellar luminosity in one cubic gigalight-year of space
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| 1046
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>1.2 × 1046 W
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astro: record for maximum beaming-corrected intrinsic luminosity (Lγ) ever achieved by a gamma-ray burst, that is GRB 110918A, in 64 ms (0.384–0.448 s)[89]
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| 1047
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~2.1× 1047 W
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astro: peak of luminosity of the GRB 221009A, the most energetic GRB of all times, nicknamed the BOAT (brightest of all times), in 1.024 seconds[90]
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| ~4.7 × 1047 W
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astro: Isotropic luminosity (Liso) of the same ultraluminous GRB 110918A[89][91]
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| 7.519 × 1047 W
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phys: Hawking radiation luminosity of a Planck mass black hole[92]
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9.5 × 1048 W
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astro: luminosity of the entire Observable universe[93] ≈ 24.6 billion trillion solar luminosity.
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| 1049
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3.6 × 1049 W
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astro: peak gravitational wave radiative power of GW150914, the merger event of two distant stellar-mass black holes. It is attributed to the first observation of gravitational waves.[94]
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| 1052
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3.63 × 1052 W
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phys: the unit of power as expressed under the Planck units,[note 1] at which the definition of power under modern conceptualizations of physics breaks down. Equivalent to one Planck mass-energy per Planck time.
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