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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh that's super interesting and I did not know that, but I was riffing off the double R in "terrawatt," instead of "terawatt."

Like "tera" describes an order of magnitude, but "terra" means "earth," as in "terra firma," "terra nova," or "terran."

So I guess you could say that 25.5 petawatt-hours = 25,500 terawatt-hours = 1 terrawatt-hour.