Sentences with word «terawatt»

Thousands of terawatts of solar power could be generated just using existing technology.

One terawatt equals a trillion watts.

CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.

If I want 8 terawatts from nuclear, say, you're going to have to build a new nuclear power plant every 1.4 days for the next 40 years.

It means that by 2050 all of the world's energy demand above what we use now in 2003 — an additional 16 [terawatts]-- will have to come from some new energy supply that doesn't put a single atom of carbon into the atmosphere.

My view is that only two forms of energy — solar and nuclear power — can plausibly supply tens of terawatts without a huge environmental impact.

As much as 100 clean terawatts, compared to today's dirty 15TW, is not inconceivable for the 22nd century.

Some may argue this comparison is too simplistic and «apples to oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.

If I knew how to do that now, and I turned on one such new carbon - free 1,000 - megawatt power plant tomorrow, and then the next day another plant and the next day another plant, I would have to do that for 27 years each and every day in order to just get 10 more terawatts.

Lasers that can produce a brief terawatt, or trillion - watt, burst are commonplace, and petawatt lasers capable of generating a quadrillion watts are possible.

Ultra-high tension terawatts and very high - pressure salt water — what could possibly go wrong?

Hoffert et al (1998)[the paper is here] provided what still is the clearest framework for establishing the huge magnitude of the energy technology challenge to meeting a growing energy commitment — a challenge measured in terawatts not gigawatts.

To illustrate, he provided one hypothetical (and impossible) menu for getting those 18 additional terawatts without emissions from coal and oil:

Composting uses the Drawdown Reduction and Replacement Solutions (RRS) Model to evaluate the global organic municipal solid waste stream; clean cookstoves uses the RRS model to evaluate terawatt hours (therms) of heating energy for cooking.

Some 7 bn people are currently consuming about 15 terawatts which is more than 2 kw per capita.

[Note: For those who prefer terawatts, 1000 GW = 1 TW.

A major scientific gap for developing a solar fuels technology that could replace fossil resources with renewable ones is scalability at the unprecedented terawatts level.

Over the next four decades the world will need multiple terawatts (trillions of watts) of new energy.

Integrated lightbox to generate an interactive map of the Neptune Lab to spotlight the lab's terawatt CO2 laser and state - of - the - art photoinjector

When coal is used to produce electricity that is used in the manufacture of wind turbines and solar panels, the deaths per terawatt hour due to coal are dramatically reduced.

Recent breakthroughs to > 50 % efficient high - power diode lasers can provide continuous illuminated spots on surface receivers from kilowatts to terawatts from satellites injected to geostationary orbit (GEO) in payloads of a few metric tons each without in - space assembly.

The total addressable market for electricity generation technologies using perennial crops as feedstock is based on estimated global electricity generation in terawatt - hours from 2020 - 2050.

Does this mean human civilisation has to restrict itself to using no more than a few hundred terawatts of energy?

The Terawatt Workshop, convened last year by the Global Alliance of Solar Energy Research Institutes, recently published its findings.

The Terawatt Workshop projected that storage (that is, round trip in and out of the battery) costs might fall to 2.5 cents per kWh by 2030.

We're talking at the terawatt scale.»

Last year, Bitcoin consumed 36 terawatt hours of energy — as much as the country of Qatar, Morgan Stanley estimated in a research note published Wednesday.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

The latest weather forecasts see slightly more rain than previously seen, but precipitation levels in Norway and Sweden are still expected to be 2 terawatt - hours (TWh) below normal.

The bank's analysts forecast that Bitcoin mining could use up more than 125 terawatt hours of electricity this year, a level electric vehicles globally won't reach until 2025.

Premiers Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard signed the deal, which will see Ontario import up to two terawatt hours of electricity from Quebec annually, allowing the province to reduce its use of natural gas to generate power.

By comparison, world power output in 2006 was 16 terawatts.

The NIF's 192 lasers currently represent the most powerful system in the world, generating up to 1.8 megajoules and 500 terawatts of ultraviolet laser energy.

That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt - hours of electricity used annually by the world's biggest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..

Over at Digiconomist, a Bitcoin blog and analysis site, owner Alex de Vries reported that the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, an measure of the energy used to mine the digital currency every year, was up to 32.36 terawatt - hours on December 6.

Marc Bevand, an investor and entrepreneur, was skeptical of de Vries» tally of Bitcoin's energy use and argued that the real global energy footprint of mining was likely closer to 15 terawatt - hours, which is still a huge amount of electricity, but half of the estimate on Digiconomist.

As of 2017, electricity demand for bitcoin mining rose to about 20.5 terawatt - hours a year, according to BNEF.

In 2014 for instance, Canada exported 45.6 Terawatt hours of electricity to the U.S..