roddy 5,437 Report post Posted July 11, 2012 Added 兆瓦. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Glenn 65 Report post Posted July 11, 2012 So that's equal to 1000千瓦? I don't get it. It seems like 兆瓦 would be a terawatt (TW)... [Edit] I think I might be misunderstanding something. Wikipedia says 10^12 W = TW = 兆瓦, but it looks like the OP says it's equal to 1000千瓦. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted July 13, 2012 Checking my dictionary, it has 兆 as meaning a trillion traditionally. Perhaps it still has that meaning in Japan? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Glenn 65 Report post Posted July 13, 2012 It definitely means "a trillion" in Japan (一兆五千億円(园/圓) and whatnot), but I got that figure off of the Chinese Wikipedia page... and wow, I just noticed something. I had converted it to the Taiwanese version, where 兆瓦 is indeed 10^12 W = TW, but on the non-converted page it shows as 10^6 W = MW. Well... this could be confusing. http://zh.wikipedia....dia.org/wiki/兆瓦 http://zh.wikipedia....ia.org/zh-tw/瓦特 [Edit] I just noticed that MDBG also has it as "megawatt". I guess Taiwan's special. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carlo 158 Report post Posted July 15, 2012 I've been dealing with a couple of power projects recently, everyone was using 兆瓦 to mean Megawatt = 1000 kw. I've heard and seen 吉瓦 for Gigawatt (ie. 1000 MW). These guys should know: they run power plants.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted September 5, 2013 So 1亿千瓦 is 100GW. But I'm not that powerful yet (edit: I am now, just saw it!) And again! I love this post, I refer to it at least once a month. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted August 14, 2014 Added 10亿千瓦, which is 1,000GW or 1TW - which sounds theoretical but is actually China's installed capacity as of end of 2012. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 17, 2014 Slightly off topic but in the same vein has anyone got any sensible translations for megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte etc. There is supposed to be a new definition of kilobyte, it is supposed to be 1024 but apparently there is now consensus of opinion that it will be 1000. Does this change the higher values too? ie megabyte is supposed to be 1024 kilobytes so has this also changed to 1000 kilobytes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imron 5,247 Report post Posted August 18, 2014 There is supposed to be a new definition of kilobyte, it is supposed to be 1024 but apparently there is now consensus of opinion that it will be 1000. Since when? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 19, 2014 I read it in New Scientist or Scientific America, I haven't been able to find the article yet but as soon as I do i will let you know. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 19, 2014 http://www.whatsabyte.com/ This explains it quite well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imron 5,247 Report post Posted August 20, 2014 That's far from consensus that kilobytes should be 1000 instead of 1024. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 20, 2014 The article i read ine New scientist or Scientific America said that it was replacing 1024 with 1000. Wish I could find it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imron 5,247 Report post Posted August 20, 2014 Regardless, there will still be plenty of dissenting opinion and habit is hard to change. I don't see it changing anytime soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 20, 2014 I agree it won't taken up by most people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shelley 1,860 Report post Posted August 20, 2014 If anyone is interested I found out these: Kilobyte qian zi jie 千字节 Megabyte zhao zi jie 兆字节 (pleco describes this as 2 to power of 20 or approx 1 million bytes) gigabyte ji zi jie 吉字节 (also described by pleco as 2 to the power of 30 or approx 1 billion bytes) terabyte zhao zhao zi jie 兆兆字节 Not sure why it is only approximate, maybe this to is some kind of rounding up/down going on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted November 10, 2015 I still love this topic and use it every few months. I hereby bump it so everyone can share. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted May 8, 2017 Just saw my first xxx亿千瓦 figure, so that's in the xx terawatt range. Couldn't let the occasion go unmarked by a quick bump for my all-time most referred to topic... Just checked and total global installed capacity is 6 petawatts (6,000 tw) give or take. This topic could run for decades yet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted April 10, 2020 Just a bump to this much-loved topic to let you know I've added 吉瓦, Gigawatt, as mentioned by carlo in 2012. I came across it in a translation and realised I hadn't added it to the first post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roddy 5,437 Report post Posted October 19, 2020 On 8/14/2014 at 10:31 AM, roddy said: Added 10亿千瓦, which is 1,000GW or 1TW - which sounds theoretical but is actually China's installed capacity as of end of 2012. This is now (approximately) China's total installed capacity for coal-fired power alone, if anyone's interested.... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
