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- noun Plural form of
picowatt .
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Examples
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As he puts it, we can measure picowatts, and the people doing cold fusion at SRI, the Navy in in Israel where he visited have the best calorimeters money can buy.
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Or the picowatts of electrical discharge along our nerves.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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Or the picowatts of electrical discharge along our nerves.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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Or the picowatts of electrical discharge along our nerves.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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Even lower power millimeter-scale sensors are already in development that require mere picowatts of power.
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At these levels - a jumping flea can generate thousands of picowatts - you can scavenge energy needed from vibrations or heat in the ambient environment, and even from the pervasive existence of radio waves themselves.
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The waste's special attribute is not its mass in tonnes but its radioactivity, which I find can usefully be measured in watts, and on that basis compared with the radioactivity naturally in the Earth's continental crust: ~1500 picowatts per litre, ~200 megawatts per metre of depth times the continents 'total surface area.
RealClimate 2009
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