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And powering the electrolyzers needed to make 300 million tons of hydrogen a year would require more than a terawatt of cheap renewable electricity, more than all the solar and wind power currently installed worldwide.
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science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
To put this in perspective, one terawatt hour could power the entire U.S. for 2.5 days.
—Sam Mugel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Arecibo, before cable breaks destroyed the dish in November 2020, was a telescope with four radio transmitters, the most powerful of which effectively transmitted at 22 terawatts at a frequency of 2,380 megahertz (similar to Wi-Fi).
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2021
By some estimates, persistent winds a half kilometer or more up in the air represent 1800 terawatts of near-nonstop, 100-percent renewable power that’s available day and night and in most weather conditions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2019
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science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
To put this in perspective, one terawatt hour could power the entire U.S. for 2.5 days.
—Sam Mugel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Arecibo, before cable breaks destroyed the dish in November 2020, was a telescope with four radio transmitters, the most powerful of which effectively transmitted at 22 terawatts at a frequency of 2,380 megahertz (similar to Wi-Fi).
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2021
By some estimates, persistent winds a half kilometer or more up in the air represent 1800 terawatts of near-nonstop, 100-percent renewable power that’s available day and night and in most weather conditions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2019
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“Terawatt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terawatt. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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terawatt
noun
tera·watt
ˈter-ə-ˌwät 
: a unit of power equal to one trillion watts
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