Amount of Power??

Scottus · Post by **Scottus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:59 pm

hey this is a far fetched question i am not sure if any one will have an answer, but for a presentation i am giving i have worked out the amount of power produced by a fusion reactor (donâ€™t worry about the details) and it would be great if i had a comparison to the amount.
9.958534674 x 10^13 J is the amount of power so if any one knows the amount of power produced by a large plane or ship or something that would be great
thanks Scotty

Post by **Nafenn** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:23 pm

Scottus wrote:hey this is a far fetched question i am not sure if any one will have an answer, but for a presentation i am giving i have worked out the amount of power produced by a fusion reactor (donâ€™t worry about the details) and it would be great if i had a comparison to the amount.
9.958534674 x 10^13 J is the amount of power so if any one knows the amount of power produced by a large plain of ship or something that would be great
thanks Scotty

An A380 can produce up to 84,000 lb/374 kN PER engine... whats that in Joules - not a clue

Kwinana Power Station has a total generating capacity of 900MW or enough energy to light nine million 100 watt globes.

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:41 pm

this website should suffice for all your needs

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html

the project sounds exciting; are you studding nuclear physics?

Scottus · Post by **Scottus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:23 pm

Cheers!!

Scottus · Post by **Scottus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:27 pm

spartacus wrote: the project sounds exciting; are you studding nuclear physics?

Yeah pretty much more of a special interest i guess, the basics at least

Scottus · Post by **Scottus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:59 pm

So assuming 60% efficiency that would give 66,000 times the amount of power from the Kwinana Power Station. (from 0.01 gram of hydrogen)
WOW

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:03 pm

Joules (energy) and Newtons (force) are different units - just like centimetres and degrees Celsius are different units. There is no simple conversion.

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Scottus · Post by **Scottus** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:07 pm

yeah figured just before sorry

Post by **Nafenn** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:20 pm

WPXZBP wrote:Joules (energy) and Newtons (force) are different units - just like centimetres and degrees Celsius are different units. There is no simple conversion.

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However... Joules/Second = Watts

so if you can get the figure in Watts... it is comparable to Kwinana

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WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:37 pm

TouchÃ©!

nra555 · Post by **nra555** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:03 pm

Isnt VoltsxAmps=watts?
thats what i was told, not sure if theres any fact to it

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:08 pm

nra555 wrote:Isnt VoltsxAmps=watts?

yes

Power = voltage x current = energy / time

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