Terajoule

The terajoule (TJ) is equal to one trillion (1012) joules; or about 0.278 GWh (which is often used in energy tables). About 63 TJ of energy was released by the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima.[1] The International Space Station, with a mass of approximately 450 megagrams and orbital velocity of 7.7 km/s,[2] has a kinetic energy of roughly 13 TJ. In 2017 Hurricane Irma was estimated to have a peak wind energy of 112 TJ.[3][4]

References

  1. Malik, John (September 1985). "Report LA-8819: The yields of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions" (PDF). Los Alamos National Laboratory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. "International Space Station Final Configuration" (PDF). European Space Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  3. Bonnie Berkowitz; Laris Karklis; Reuben Fischer-Baum; Chiqui Esteban (11 September 2017). Analysis - How big is Hurricane Irma?. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/how-big-is-hurricane-irma/. Retrieved 2 November 2017. 
  4. "Irma unleashes its fury on south Florida", Financial Times, accessed 10-Sept-2017 (subscription needed)