How much power is in a gigawatt?

Answer 1

Exactly a gigawatt.

Answer 2

Multiple Name Symbol Multiple Name Symbol
100 watt W
101 decawatt daW 10–1 deciwatt dW
102 hectowatt hW 10–2 centiwatt cW
103 kilowatt kW 10–3 milliwatt mW
106 megawatt MW 10–6 microwatt µW
109 gigawatt GW 10–9 nanowatt nW
1012 terawatt TW 10–12 picowatt pW
1015 petawatt PW 10–15 femtowatt fW
1018 exawatt EW 10–18 attowatt aW
1021 zettawatt ZW 10–21 zeptowatt zW
1024 yottawatt YW 10–24 yoctowatt yW

Answer 3

Look at it this way. If you weighed about 200 pounds and you climbed a 10 foot section of stairs in about 1 millionth of a second it would take a gigawatt for you perform this feat.

Answer 4

One billion watts,

One watt is one joule of energy per second.

The joule is a derived unit defined as the work done or energy required, to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre, so the same quantity may be referred to as a newton metre or newton-metre with the symbol N·m. However, the newton metre is usually used as a measure of torque, not energy.

As a rough guide, 1 joule is the absolute minimum amount of energy required (on the surface of Earth) to lift a one kilogram object up by a height of 10 centimetres.

Answer 5

0.21 more gigawatts would power your delorian time machine and allow the flux capacitator to take you back to the future.

Answer 6

about 1000 megawatts, or 1000000 watts. when you consider that your fridge takes like 1000 or less wats to run, and the averatge lightbulb takes 60, quite a lot.

Answer 7

1 000 million watts, i.e. 1 000 MW.

Answer 8

1.000.000.000 of watts enough to light 10.000.000, 100w light bulbs

Answer 9

giga is million.