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1 Watt



One Watt equals:


1 joule per second


1000 milliwatts


1/1000 kilowatts


0.001341 mechanical horsepower


0.0013596216173039 metric horsepower


0.7376 ft lbf/s


Several times the average power comsumption of a smartphone in sleep mode


A W, an A, and two T's


Power to melt a gram of ice in 334 seconds


Power to vaporize 1/292,092,454 of a human continuously


Power to lift 666.666666... squirrels up onto stacks of four sheets of paper


A bent metal bar fighting an attic window while two telephone poles look on


1/1.1772 of the power required to lift a banana 1 meter into the air in 1 second


Approximate power of getting punched by a rat once per second

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