Sentences with phrase «terawatts of»

Humans use about 15 terawatts of average power per year.

If I plug in the radius of the earth squared times pi times a tousand watts per meter squared I get 127000 Terawatts of incoming solar energy.

The warming in the deep Southern Ocean alone accounts for 34 terawatts of warming, roughly equivalent to the continuous operation of three 1,500 - watt electric teakettles for each of the 7 billion people on the planet.

Fourteen terawatts of OTEC power would overcome the greatest concern of climate scientists by sequestering 79 billion metric tons of CO2 annually.

To put that in perspective 2 terawatts of solar PVs, he calculates would reuire installing 100 square metres of solar cells every second for the next 25 years or 77,700 km ² of mirrors.

By the year 2100, humankind will need to produce and consume roughly 60 terawatts of energy if every human on earth is to reach the level of prosperity enjoyed today by the world's wealthiest one billion people.

In 2007, human beings will consume roughly 15 terawatts of energy worldwide.

(Note: the post says half a million 100 MW plants produces 25 terawatts of power whereas it seems to me the math points to 50 terawatts.)

They take for granted that economic growth will continue as it has in the past (no small assumption, granted) and thus that 10 - 30 terawatts of carbon - neutral power will be needed by 2050 to meet global energy needs while limiting atmospheric CO2 concentrations to 450 ppm.

The sun pours 120,000 terawatts of energy onto Earth; 10,000 times what we need.

«It turns out, to get on a trajectory to hit 450 ppm, we're going to need to turn off most of our fossil fuel energy, end deforestation, and build about 11.5 new terawatts of clean energy capacity by 2033 (30 years out from the 2003 baseline).»

For example, rather than «bath [ing] the planet in 800 terawatts of energy continually», the energy from the sun that reaches Earth's surface amounts to a whopping 80,000 TW continuously, a factor of 100 larger.

Then he turned to the sun, his research focus, which bathes the planet in 800 terawatts of energy continually.

The manufacturing process requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually.

That might sound expensive, but the average American family spends $ 300 on toilet paper every year, their portion of the 3 million tons of the stuff that is made every year from 54 million trees using 473 billion gallons of water and 17.3 terawatts of electricity.

Tangentially related to what James asked about geothermal power generation, you forgot to mention that radioactive decay is the source of most geothermal energy, something like 30 terawatts of flux these days according to my Google expertise.

Humans will need to produce and consume roughly 60 terawatts of energy annually by 2100 if every human on earth is reach the level of prosperity enjoyed today by the world's wealthiest one billion people.

GA - SERI's experts predict 5 - 10 terawatts of PV capacity could be in place by 2030 if these challenges can be overcome:

But even the most optimistic projections have under - represented the actual deployment of PV over the last decade, and the GA - SERI paper discusses a realistic trajectory to install 5 - 10 terawatts of PV capacity by 2030.

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

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

Right now the world runs on about 14 terawatts of power, the equivalent of 220 million barrels of oil per day.

The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by cryptocurrency platform Digiconomist puts the usage on a par with Denmark, consuming 33 terawatts of electricity annually.

When there are 100 million EVs, figuring 60 kWh batteries, the fleet will provide 6 terawatt - hours of storage, enough to run the U.S. (with 1,000 GW, or 1 Terawatt, of power capacity) at peak power for six hours, or the world (with 5 Terawatts of capacity) for over an hour.

If their power output per pound is similar to a horse, they should produce about 1 Terawatt of power, which is about equal to the current US installed generating capacity.

The world currently has enough coal - fired power plants to produce about one terawatt of electricity — the equivalent to each of the seven billion people on Earth using two 75 - watt light bulbs at the same time.

In their study published in February in Environmental Research Letters, Myhrvold and Caldeira looked at switching from one terawatt of coal power plants to natural gas - or to solar panels, or wind, or nuclear, or other options.

Not exact matches

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

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 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.

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.

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.

In fact, as of Tuesday, electricity consumption from Bitcoin rose to a record high of 47.4 terawatt - hours, according to Digiconomist, Alex de Vries's Bitcoin analysis blog.

As a result, Bitcoin's electricity consumption could rise as high as 120 terawatt - hours by the end of the year, about as much as Norway and more than double its current appetite.

Over a seven - year period, Ontario will be allowed to import up to two terawatt hours of electricity annually from Quebec — or enough energy to power a city of roughly 200,000 people.

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

Microwave appliance usage across the EU consumes an estimated 9.4 terawatts per hour (TWh) of electricity every year.

In total, microwave appliances across the EU consume an estimated 9.4 terawatts per hour (TWh) of electricity every year.

But geothermal accounts for only about 16 terawatt - hours a year in the United States, less than half of 1 percent of total electricity consumption.

All that processing guzzles a lot of electricity: one of the latest estimates put the annual electricity consumption of bitcoin mining at 23.07 terawatt hours, roughly the amount of electricity used by Ecuador each year.

The wind farms that now punctuate the landscape from California to New York produce a total of almost 100 terawatt - hours of electricity a year, almost 2.5 percent of total demand.

The fleet's net output of electricity has declined from 429 terawatt hours in 2005 to 404 TWh last year, though this could be for a range of reasons, including weak energy demand.

I think the figure is the sun bathes the Earth in 120,000 terawatt - hours of energy and the global community only uses 12 to 15 terawatt - hours.

Where a traditional accelerator can take kilometers to drive an electron to 50 giga - electron volts (GeV), Leemans and team showed that a mini-laser plasma accelerator could get electrons to 1 GeV in just three centimeters with a laser pulse of about 40 terawatt.

In 2011, wind energy contributed approximately 15.5 terawatt - hours of electricity to the UK.

So while the large - scale use of solar power could potentially affect the climate, the effects will be relatively minor so long as we don't capture hundreds of terawatts that would otherwise have been reflected straight back into space.