1 E8 W

1 microwatt

• 1 μW - approximate consumption of a quartz wristwatch

1 milliwatt

• 5 mW - laser in a CD-ROM drive [1]
• 5-10 mW - laser in a DVD-ROM drive
• 100 mW - laser in a CD-R drive

1 watt

• 30 W -- the power of the typical household tube light
• 60 W -- the power of the typical household light bulb

• 100 W -- approximate average power used by the human body
• 745.7 W -- 1 horsepower

1 kilowatt

• 2.20 × 10³ W -- per capita average power use of the world in 2001

• 1.14 × 10⁴ W -- per capita average power use in the U.S. in 2001
• 1.36 × 10⁴ W -- power received from the Sun at the Earth's orbit by one square metre
• 4 × 10⁴ - 2 × 10⁵ W -- approximate range of power output for typical automobiles

1 megawatt

• 1.03 × 10⁷ W -- Electrical power output of Togo

• 1.9 × 10⁸ W -- peak power output of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier
• 9.59 × 10⁸ W -- average electrical power consumption of Zimbabwe in 1998

1 gigawatt

• 2.074 × 10⁹ W - peak power generation of Hoover Dam
• 3 × 10⁹ W - approximate peak power generation of the world's largest nuclear reactor

• 1.27 × 10¹⁰ -- average electrical power consumption of Norway in 1998
• 1.82 × 10¹⁰ -- electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China when complete

• 4.243 × 10¹¹ W -- average electrical power consumption of the U.S. in 2001

1 terawatt

• 1.7 × 10¹² W -- average electrical power consumption of the world in 2001
• 3.327 × 10¹² W -- average total power consumption of the U.S. in 2001

• 1.35 × 10¹³ W -- average total power consumption of the world in 2001

• 8.5 × 10¹⁴ watts -- world's most powerful laser (claimed on 2003-4-16 by Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute)

1 petawatt

• 1.25 × 10¹⁵ watts -- world's most powerful laser (claimed on 1996-5-23 by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory).
• 4 × 10¹⁵ watts -- estimated total heat flux transported by Earth's atmosphere and oceans away from the equator towards the poles.

• 1.75 × 10¹⁷ W -- total power received by the Earth from the Sun

1 exawatt

1 zettawatt

• 1.35 × 10²³W - Approximate luminosity of Wolf 359

1 yottawatt

• 3.86×10²⁶W - Luminosity of the Sun

Higher orders of magnitude

• 3.31 × 10³¹W - Approximate luminosity of Hadar

• 1.23 × 10³²W - Approximate luminosity of Deneb

• 5 × 10³⁶W - Approximate luminosity of the Milky way galaxy.

• 1 × 10⁴⁵W - Approximate luminosity of a supernova

See also

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: energy, time, length, area, volume, mass

SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, power, orders of magnitude, conversion of units

External link

• Conversion Calculator for Units of POWER

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