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The following is a list of various things and the energy they represent, some very interesting things in there…

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28power%29

INTERESTING FIGURES IN BOLD RED TEXT

zeptowatt (10⁻²¹ watt)

• ~10 zW – tech: approximate power of Galileo space probe’s radio signal (when at Jupiter) as received on earth by a 70-meter DSN antenna.

attowatt (10⁻¹⁸ watt)

• 1 aW – phys: approximate power scale at which operation of nanoelectromechanical systems are overwhelmed by thermal fluctuations.^[1]
• 100 aW – tech: the GPS signal strength measured at the surface of the Earth,^{[clarification needed]} roughly equivalent to viewing a 25-watt light bulb from a distance of 10,000 miles.^[2]

femtowatt (10⁻¹⁵ watt)

• 2.5 fW – tech: minimum discernible signal at the antenna terminal of a good FM radio receiver
• 10 fW (−110 dBm) – tech: approximate lower limit of power reception on digital spread-spectrum cell phone

picowatt (10⁻¹² watt)

• 1 pW (−90 dBm) – biomed: average power consumption of a human cell
• 150 pW – biomed: power entering a human eye from a 100-watt lamp 1 km away

nanowatt (10⁻⁹ watt)

• 2–15 nW – tech: power consumption of 8-bit PIC microcontroller chips when in “sleep” mode

microwatt (10⁻⁶ watt)

• 1 µW (−30 dBm) – tech: approximate consumption of a quartz wristwatch
• 3 µW – astro: cosmic microwave background radiation per square meter

milliwatt (10⁻³ watt)

• 5 mW – tech: laser in a CD-ROM drive
• 5–10 mW – tech: laser in a DVD player
• 70 mW – tech: antenna power in a typical consumer wireless router

watt

• 4 W – tech: the power consumption of an incandescent night light
• 14 W – tech: the power consumption of a typical household compact fluorescent light bulb
• 20–40 W – biomed: approximate power consumption of the human brain^[4]
• 30–40 W – tech: the power consumption of a typical household fluorescent tube light
• 60 W – tech: the power consumption of a typical household incandescent light bulb
• 100 W – biomed: approximate basal metabolic rate of an adult human body^[5]
• 120 W – tech: power output of 1 m² solar panel in full sunlight (approx. 12% efficiency), at sea level
• 130 W – tech: peak power consumption of a Pentium 4 CPU
• 253 W (2,215 kWh/year) – geo: per capita average power use of the world in 2001
• 290 W – units: approximately 1000 BTU/hour
• 300–400 W – tech: PC GPU Nvidia Geforce Fermi 480 power consumption^[6]
• 400 W – tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United Kingdom
• 500 W – biomed: power output (useful work plus heat) of a person working hard physically
• 745.7 W – units: 1 horsepower
• 750 W – astro: approximately the amount of sunshine falling on a square metre of the Earth’s surface on a clear day in March for northern temperate latitudes
• 909 W – biomed: peak output power of a healthy human (nonathlete) during a 30-second cycle sprint at 30.1 degree Celsius.^[7]

kilowatt (10³ watts)

• 1.1 kW – tech: power of a microwave oven
• 1.366 kW – astro: power received from the sun at the earth’s orbit per square metre
• 1.5 kW – tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United States
• up to 2 kW – biomed: approximate short-time power output of sprinting professional cyclists
• 1 kW to 3 kW – tech: heat output of a domestic electric kettle
• 3.6 kW – tech: synchrotron radiation power lost per ring in the Large Hadron Collider at 7000 GeV^[3]
• 3.3–6.6 kW – eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of ocean^[8]
• 30 kW – power generated by the four motors of GEN H-4 one-man helicopter
• 11.4 kW – average power consumption per person in the United States as of 2009^{[citation needed]}
• 16–32 kW – eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of land^[8]
• 10 kW to 50 kW – tech: nominal power of clear channel AM^[9]
• 50 kW to 100 kW – tech: highest allowed ERP for an FM band radio station in the United States^[10]
• 40 kW to 200 kW – tech: approximate range of power output of typical automobiles
• 167 kW – tech: power consumption of UNIVAC 1 computer
• 250 kW to 800 kW – tech: approximate range of power output of ‘supercars‘
• 450 kW – tech: approximate maximum power output of a large 18-wheeler truck engine
• 800 kW – tech: approximate average power output of a small coal power plant

megawatt (10⁶ watts)

• 1.3 MW – tech: power output of P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft
• 1.5 MW – tech: peak power output of GE’s standard wind turbine
• 1.5 MW – tech: achieved est Drawbar power of GWR Castle class (2K EDHP) (1923)
• 2.4 MW – tech: peak power output of a Princess Coronation class steam locomotive (approx 3.3K EDHP on test) (1937)
• 2.5 MW – biomed: peak power output of a blue whale
• 3 MW – tech: mechanical power output of a diesel locomotive
• 10 MW – tech: highest ERP allowed for an UHF television station
• 10.3 MW – geo: electrical power output of Togo
• 12.2 MW – tech: approx power available to a Eurostar 20-carriage train
• 16 MW – tech: rate at which a typical gasoline pump transfers chemical energy to a vehicle
• 17 to 80 MW – tech: approximate maximum power output of a Nd:YAG laser used in Particle Image Velocimetry (100mJ over 6ns to 400mJ over 5ns, both at 532 nm)
• 26 MW – tech: peak power output of the reactor of a Los-Angeles class nuclear submarine
• 75 MW – tech: maximum power output of one GE90 jet engine as installed on the Boeing 777
• 140 MW – tech: average power consumption of a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft
• 190 MW – tech: peak power output of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
• 900 MW – tech: electric power output of a CANDU nuclear reactor
• 959 MW – geo: average electrical power consumption of Zimbabwe in 1998

gigawatt (10⁹ watts)

• 1.3 GW – tech: electric power output of Manitoba Hydro Limestone hydroelectric generating station

• 2.074 GW – tech: peak power generation of Hoover Dam
• 2.1 GW – tech: peak power generation of Aswan Dam
• 4.116 GW – tech: installed capacity of Kendal Power Station, the world’s largest coal-fired power plant.
• 8.21 GW – tech: capacity of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear power plant.^[11][12]
• 12.6 GW – tech: electrical power generation of the Itaipu Dam
• 12.7 GW – geo: average electrical power consumption of Norway in 1998
• 18.3 GW – tech: current electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant of any type.
• 55 GW – tech peak daily electrical power consumption of Great Britain in November 2008.^[13]
• 74 GW – tech: total installed wind turbine capacity at end of 2006.^[14]
• 190 GW – tech: average power consumption of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket

terawatt (10¹² watts)

• 2 TW – astro: approximate power generated between the surfaces of Jupiter and its moon Io due to Jupiter’s tremendous magnetic field.^[15]
• 3.34 TW – geo: average total (gas, electricity, etc.) power consumption of the US in 2005^[16]
• 15 TW – geo: average total power consumption of the human world in 2004
• 44 TW – geo: average total heat flux from earth’s interior^[17]
• 75 TW – eco: global net primary production (= biomass production) via photosynthesis^{[citation needed]}
• 50 to 200 TW – weather: rate of heat energy release by a hurricane
• 290 TW – tech: the power the Z machine reaches in 1 billionth of a second when it is fired
• 300 TW – tech: power reached by the extremely high-power Hercules laser from the University of Michigan.

petawatt (10¹⁵ watts)

• 1.1 PW – tech: world’s most powerful laser pulses by laser still in operation (claimed on March 31, 2008 by Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science at The University of Texas at Austin).
• 1.25 PW – tech: world’s most powerful laser pulses (claimed on May 23, 1996 by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory).
• 1.4 PW – geo: estimated heat flux transported by the Gulf Stream.
• 4 PW – geo: estimated total heat flux transported by earth‘s atmosphere and oceans away from the equator towards the poles.
• 10–100 PW geo: estimated total power output of a Type-I civilization on the Kardashev scale.
• 174.0 PW – astro: total power received by the Earth from the sun

exawatt (10¹⁸ watts)

• 100 EW – tech: Extreme Light Infrastructure laser^{[citation needed]}

zettawatt (10²¹ watts)

• 135 ZW – astro: approximate luminosity of Wolf 359

yottawatt (10²⁴ watts)

• 384.6 YW – astro: luminosity of the sun
• 400 YW – geo: estimated total power output of a Type-II civilization on the Kardashev scale.

Greater than one thousand yottawatts

• 3.31 × 10³¹W – astro: approximate luminosity of Beta Centauri
• 1.23 × 10³²W – astro: approximate luminosity of Deneb
• 5 × 10³⁶W – astro: approximate luminosity of the Milky Way galaxy.
• 4 × 10³⁷W – astro: estimated total power output of a Type-III civilization on the Kardashev scale.
• 1 × 10⁴⁰W – astro: approximate luminosity of a quasar
• 1 × 10⁴²W – astro: approximate luminosity of the Local Supercluster
• 1 × 10⁴⁵W – astro: approximate luminosity of a gamma-ray burst
• 2 × 10⁴⁹W – astro: approximate total luminosity of all the stars in the observable universe
• 3.63 × 10⁵²W – phys: The Planck power, the basic unit of power in the Planck units.

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