Amount of Power??

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Amount of Power??

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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 (don’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
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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 (don’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
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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.
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this website should suffice for all your needs

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

the project sounds exciting; are you studding nuclear physics?
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Cheers!!
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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
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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)
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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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yeah figured just before sorry
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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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Touché!
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Isnt VoltsxAmps=watts?
thats what i was told, not sure if theres any fact to it
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nra555 wrote:Isnt VoltsxAmps=watts?
yes

Power = voltage x current = energy / time
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