Examples of terawatt in a Sentence
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At current growth rates, some new AI servers could soon gobble up more than 85 terawatt hours of electricity each year, researchers have estimated — more than some small nations’ annual energy consumption.
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Emily Pandise, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
The steady, intense winds some 500 meters above sea level are capable of generating 1800 terawatts: enough to power the entire planet multiple times over.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
Journey to the Center of the Earth To unlock the terawatt potential of geothermal energy, MIT startup Quaise Energy is testing a deep-drilling rig in 2024 that will use high-power millimeter waves to melt a column of rock down as far as 10 to 20 kilometers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
For a massive wind farm stretching over 70,000 km2 in wind-rich Kansas, turbines could extract 0.3 to 0.4 terawatts (TW)—roughly the power consumption of the 4.4 million km2 -wide European Union—for four months of the year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2017
To keep that mighty engine running takes some 18 terawatts of primary energy and, per year, some 60 billion metric tons of materials, 2.6 billion metric tons of grain, and about 300 million metric tons of meat.
—Vaclav Smil, IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2018
In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
—William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
Planned hydrogen electrolyzer projects globally have jumped by 18% in the last six months, surpassing one terawatt of electricity capacity for the first time, according to a semi annual report by Aurora Energy Research.
—Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2023
Demand for lithium-ion batteries from transport and energy storage will surge to as much as 5.9 terawatt-hours a year in 2030, putting a strain on supply chains, BloombergNEF said in an annual New Energy Outlook report published Wednesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
Emily Pandise, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
The steady, intense winds some 500 meters above sea level are capable of generating 1800 terawatts: enough to power the entire planet multiple times over.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
Journey to the Center of the Earth To unlock the terawatt potential of geothermal energy, MIT startup Quaise Energy is testing a deep-drilling rig in 2024 that will use high-power millimeter waves to melt a column of rock down as far as 10 to 20 kilometers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
For a massive wind farm stretching over 70,000 km2 in wind-rich Kansas, turbines could extract 0.3 to 0.4 terawatts (TW)—roughly the power consumption of the 4.4 million km2 -wide European Union—for four months of the year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2017
To keep that mighty engine running takes some 18 terawatts of primary energy and, per year, some 60 billion metric tons of materials, 2.6 billion metric tons of grain, and about 300 million metric tons of meat.
—Vaclav Smil, IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2018
In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
—William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
Planned hydrogen electrolyzer projects globally have jumped by 18% in the last six months, surpassing one terawatt of electricity capacity for the first time, according to a semi annual report by Aurora Energy Research.
—Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2023
Demand for lithium-ion batteries from transport and energy storage will surge to as much as 5.9 terawatt-hours a year in 2030, putting a strain on supply chains, BloombergNEF said in an annual New Energy Outlook report published Wednesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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1970, in the meaning defined above
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terawatt
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tera·watt
ˈter-ə-ˌwät 
: a unit of power equal to one trillion watts
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