• Question: what is a gigawatt?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Asked by stewieadam to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      A Watt is a measure of power, or energy consumption or production: 1 Watt = 1 joule/second.
      Giga – is a prefix ‘times ten to the power of 9’.
      So 1 Gigawatt = 1e9 Watts = 1 billion Watts = 1 billions joules/second.

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      One billion watts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉

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