terawatt
Powerexact by definition
The terawatt is 10¹² watts, exact by prefix. Global average human power consumption is about 19 TW, and total solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface is roughly 90,000 TW, which is the comparison the unit mostly exists to make.
| 1 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
One terawatt in every power unit
| 1.00000e+21 | nanowatt (nW) | |
| 1.00000e+19 | erg per second (erg/s) | |
| 1.00000e+18 | microwatt (μW) | |
| 1.00000e+15 | milliwatt (mW) | |
| 44,253,700,000,000 | foot pound-force per minute (ft·lbf/min) | |
| 3,412,140,000,000 | BTU per hour (BTU/h) | |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | watt (W) | |
| 859,845,000,000 | kilocalorie per hour (kcal/h) | |
| 737,562,000,000 | foot pound-force per second (ft·lbf/s) | |
| 3,412,140,000 | thousand BTU per hour (MBH) | |
| 1,359,620,000 | metric horsepower (PS) | |
| 1,341,020,000 | horsepower (mechanical) (hp) | |
| 1,340,480,000 | electrical horsepower (hp (elec)) | |
| 1,000,000,000 | kilowatt (kW) | |
| 284,345,000 | ton of refrigeration (ton) | |
| 101,942,000 | boiler horsepower (bhp) | |
| 3,412,140 | million BTU per hour (MMBTU/h) | |
| 1,000,000 | megawatt (MW) | |
| 1,000 | gigawatt (GW) | |
| 1 | terawatt (TW)this unit | |
| 2.61233e-15 | solar luminosity (Lsun) |
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