Sample Sentences & Example Usage. 1  Dashon Nicholas: I think itâs just kids, i think it is pretty disturbing, but this whole area down here is disturbing. 2  Howard Zinn: They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace.What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.
The gigawatt is equal to one billion (109) watts or 1 gigawatt = 1000 megawatts. This unit is often used for large power plants or power grids. For example, by the end of 2010 power shortages in China's Shanxi province were expected to increase to 5â6 GW and the installed capacity of wind power in Germany was 25.8 GW.
It is, as its name. suggests, one kilowatt of power used over a period of one hour. Some examples - (See chart below for the math equation) A light bulb is typically 60 watts; leave it on for an hour you have used 60. watt hours, or .06 kWh. A typical personal computer uses approximately 70 watts. In addition, a 17. monitor uses another 80 watts. That comes to 150 watts in an hour, or .15. kWh. If you have the same computer on for only 4 minutes (say, to check. your e-mail), that would come to .01 kWh. With an LCD monitor that uses only 35 watts, an hour of usage will come to. .105 kWh.