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What can I compare power to?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:14 pm
by sdfgeoff
Well, for an assignment, i'm studying the power consumption of a laptop. Over the course of it's life (including manufacturing) it consumes ~6430Mj.
What can I compare this to?
Re: What can I compare power to?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:57 pm
by Krom
Amount of fossil fuel you would have to burn to get that much power? Distance you could drive a car (or other forms of work) with that much energy?
Re: What can I compare power to?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:08 pm
by snoopy
2.8 million big macs?
Re: What can I compare power to?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:11 pm
by Isaac
The amount of energy that would have to be done in order to do the same task without a computer... I should be a politician.
Re: What can I compare power to?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:42 pm
by Krom
Also:
1.786 megawatt-hours or electricity, or enough to run two average American houses for a little less than one month.
Or the explosive yield of about 1.5 tons of TNT.
Or the amount of energy in about 1.09 barrels of oil.
Or a bit over 6 million BTUs.
Re: What can I compare power to?
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:12 am
by Duper
snoopy wrote:2.8 million big macs?
Nice. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" ???
Here ya go TNT equivalent with Joules included. 64K is a lot more than most nukes.