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- noun Plural form of
terawatt .
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Units such as terawatts, joules and BTUs mean little to our policymakers and citizens, adding confusion to an already difficult topic.
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Units such as terawatts, joules and BTUs mean little to our policymakers and citizens, adding confusion to an already difficult topic.
Our Energy Challenge, In Cubic Miles Of Oil Curtis R. Carlson 2010
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If you Google [terawatts wind], you get this reasonable page from Nature, followed by this amalgamation of lies and propaganda because of this paragraph, which needs some serious fact-checking:
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First of all, who says the maximum wind power can deliver globally is 10 to 15 terawatts?
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(In a business-as-usual scenario, we would need 45 terawatts.)
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Assuming minimal population growth (to 9 billion people), slow economic growth (1.6 percent a year, practically recession level) and — this is key — unprecedented energy efficiency (improvements of 500 percent relative to current U.S. levels, worldwide), it will use 28 terawatts in 2050.
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As I said before, with terawatts of nuclear power (forget your strawman argument about too cheap to meter), we don't need oil, which solves your CO2 problem as a side benefit.
Today's Video: Like None Other - Restored Moon Images to Help Future Moon Missions - NASA Watch 2009
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Simple physics shows that in order to keep CO2 to 450 ppm, 26.5 of those terawatts must be zero-carbon.
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Also, how many terawatts of wind power should (a) the U.S. and (b) the world build over the next four years?
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The world used 14 trillion watts (14 terawatts) of power in 2006.
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