Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One million million ( 1012 )
watts , abbreviated asTW .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tera-watt.
Examples
-
The climate is a tera-watt scale planetary sized heat engine.
Antarctic Shrimp, Global Warming and the Laffer Curve | RedState 2010
-
Climate is an immense, multi-stable, driven, chaotic, optimally turbulent, constructally organized tera-watt scale heat engine, with dozens of forcings and feedbacks, both internal and external, and both known and unknown.
-
⠠ Global climate is a tera-watt scale heat engine, with an energy source at about 345 W/m2 and an energy sink at about 0°K.
-
Whether temperatures rise in that amount in the context of an over-driven, governed, tera-watt scale, constructal, multistable heat engine with a large number of known and unknown forcings and feedbacks is a very different question, one where theory is not much help.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.