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How to pronounce “petawatt”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of petawatt with real speech in context.
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- How Much Clean Electricity Do We Really Need?
But I had never heard of a petawatt hour
- Definition summary
- (metrology) An SI unit of power equal to 1015 watts. Symbol: PW. An amount of power much larger than all the power generated by all power stations on Earth. (Consuming 1 petawatt during a duration of 1 hour would consume 1 petawatt-hour of energy.)
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How to pronounce petawatt
How Much Clean Electricity Do We Really Need?

But I had never heard of a petawatt hour
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A Deep Dive Into “petawatt”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (metrology) An SI unit of power equal to 1015 watts. Symbol: PW. An amount of power much larger than all the power generated by all power stations on Earth. (Consuming 1 petawatt during a duration of 1 hour would consume 1 petawatt-hour of energy.)
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