terawatt-year

Noun

terawatt-year (plural terawatt-years)

1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one terawatt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹⁸ joules).
   • Meronyms: (sorted by magnitude) yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour...
   • Energy conservation can bring you 1 terawatt and it falls in line with the soft options, but not dozens of terawatts. So what do you do then when dozens of terawatts are at stake? Fortunately there is more than one option to provide, but they all have their problems. (Figure 7.) Coal is half an...1977, United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, quoting Wolf Haefele, European Oversight Trip: Report of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of...