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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:41PM (#15697891)
What are Terrawatts?
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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by rdtsc on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:52PM (#15697981)
> What are Terrawatts?

1 terawatt (TW) = 10e12 watts. Then 1 watt-hour (Wh) is 3600 joules.

Or maybe you meant to say they misspelled the word? But then you would have just said it was a misspelling, so I assumed you asked about the unit itself.

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by whyever on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:55PM (#15698015)
"Tera" is an SI prefix and "Watt" is the SI unit of power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by stickydink on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:49PM (#15697958)
Terra is the SI unit for 10^12. One Terrawatt-hour is the electrical energy equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000 watts, generated in one hour.
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