This news is a year old.
China very likely surpassed 1,250 GW at this moment.Oh didn’t even notice the date, you’re right given the rate of the build out, it’s likely much further along now.
826.5x the power needed to time travel in a Delorean. That’s a lot of GW.
i hate it when someone else does my joke before me. :p
yeah but how fast is china moving?
perhaps the real 88 miles per hour is the libyan nationalists we met along the way.
US Tech leadership in the World is already a running Gag in China since time.
There’s very little useful tech in the US; every time I see what other countries are doing and having traveled to some. We’re living in the dark ages.
I can’t think of anything other than enshitification being the largest advancements in the US.
We have a system of units based on factors of 1000. Why on earth wouldn’t one say “surpass 1 TW”? If they want important sounding numbers, they could say “a million megawatts”.
sometimes things become standard I guess
like driving 1000 kilometers for a trip or weighing 100 kilograms
using 1000 kWh in your house
Much as I’d like Mm and Mg to be more widely used, they’re very rarely seen. TW and MWh are perfectly normal units, though.
I do find it sad that people talk about 1000 kilotons, though. It’s a Tg. A ton is a megagram, a kiloton is a gigagram, and a thousand of those is a teragram. It’s a pity that we don’t live in a world where that’s normal.
According to this wikipedia source, the entire species generated 18TW in 2019
A lightning strike is around a terawatt.
