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[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

That's not small....

100's of Gigawatts is how much energy that is. Fuel is pretty damn energy dense.

A Boeing 777 might burn 45k Kg of fuel, at a density of 47Mj/kg. Which comes out to... 600 Megawatts

Or about 60 houses energy usage for a year in the U.S.


It's an asinine way to measure it to be fair, not only is it incredibly ambiguous, but almost no one has any reference as to how much energy that actually is.

[โ€“] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

That's not ~600 Megawatts, it's 587 Megawatt-hours.

Or in other terms that are maybe easier to understand: 5875 fully charged 100kWh Tesla batteries.