Talk:Orders of magnitude (power)
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How small?
Anyone have a good idea how small this should go? It seems to me that most of the really small powers are better expressed as energy, when you have reactions of individual molecules and such. I know some LEDs and such go at least down to microwatts, and there's the now-infamous (there's that word again!) antpower, albeit badly calculated. Anybody know any nanowatts or smaller that have any use? Perhaps the average power output of a single human cell, or something like that? -- John Owens 10:34 19 May 2003 (UTC)
Multiple of three powers instead of decades
Also, I'm open to suggestions as to when we should start grouping by thousands instead of decades. I'm thinking around 1 E24 W, and around 1 E-6 W if we go any smaller than that. Comment? -- John Owens 13:26 19 May 2003 (UTC)
- Should the examples be in "engineering" scientific notation? in other words, multiple of three exponents. for instance, in the kilowatts section was a 1.1x10^4. i changed it to 11x10^3, so that it is in kilowatts. This is certainly the way I would prefer units, but I am an engineer and others may not like it. - Omegatron 15:30, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
- I would like the numbers include a non-three-power notation i.e. write 1x10^4 W as 10 kW; 1.4x10^5 W as 140 kW and so forth. I think this will make the sections more readable for people not familiar with this notation, and greatly increase readability. --Deelkar 04:00, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Put these all in one page
I really, really think this should all be one one page. It will make it a lot more usable, and easier to maintain into the bargain. Onebyone 03:12, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Done, and since even on one page the list still doesn't look at all cramped, I think the result is the right thing. There are now 48 redirects to this page... Onebyone 01:25, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
which world
"average total power consumption of the world"
- this just means human activities, right? - Omegatron 03:00, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
total power consumption
the issue isn't with the words "power consumption", but with the word "total", implying the amount of power consumed in one year, which is silly, since power is a rate per unit time. i think the "total" just means "total for all of the united states", not "total for the entire year", but we should rephrase and get a reference. - Omegatron 17:02, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe I misunderstood. Is "total power consumption" meant to include non-electrical power? If so, that's my mistake, and it should probably be restored to the way it was before I removed it. --P3d0 23:23, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, you're probably right. Either way, it should be verified and explicitly phrased. - Omegatron 14:45, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)