What's the difference between kilowatt and watt?

Kilowatt


Definition:

  • (n.) One thousand watts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
  • (2) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
  • (3) The energy generated by a high power amplifier (7.5 kilowatts effective at 1 MHz) is delivered in the form of series of impulses lasting between 10 and 1,000 milliseconds.
  • (4) But the detailed documents showed that the proposed 5 pence per kilowatt hour for power exported to the grid had actually been cut to 3 pence.
  • (5) Fundamentally, we have to move toward metrics that measure the performance of food production and environmental systems in a holistic manner, using indicators such as nutrients per drop of water, hectare of land or kilowatt of energy.
  • (6) The state grid is legally obliged to pay 0.54 yuan per kilowatt hour (kWh) of wind energy, even though it could get the same amount of coal-fired power for 0.3 yuan.
  • (7) Goodall took the NEED figure for the average number of kilowatt hours of gas that the 21,000 households in the study saved through loft insulation – 400kWh – and multiplied it by the 3.874p per kWh, which is the cheapest tariff offered by any of the big six energy companies at the time, in mid-December.
  • (8) The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour .
  • (9) Those are the same people whose average income per capita hovers above $23,000 a year (the figure in Mississippi, the poorest of the 50 states, is just below $36,000), but who pay more than twice what the rest of the country pays for electricity: Americans pay 12 cents per kilowatt-hour on average, compared to 26 cents in Puerto Rico.
  • (10) We handed over our credit card details and three days later a £422 Hunter Hawk (4 kilowatt) model arrived on a pallet (since burned) plus the associated flue.
  • (11) If the wind suddenly drops or a nuclear power station fails the smart meter can temporarily ration a household to one or two kilowatts, enough for lights and the TV but not for the vacuum cleaner.
  • (12) Brain tumors were irradiated postoperatively by Hatanaka and co-workers in Japan using a 1 to 2 hour intraarterial infusion of 10B-enriched Na2B12H11SH (Na210B12H11SH) before exposure of the tumor-bearing area of the brain to slow neutrons from a 100 kilowatt nuclear reactor.
  • (13) It’s the fastest project in Africa.” Its first year produced an estimated 15 million kilowatt hours, sending power to a substation 9km away, which has prompted mixed views in local communities.
  • (14) Other aspects of the energy bill include an emissions performance standard that would prevent the construction of new coal plants emitting more than 450 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour; a capacity mechanism that is supposed to ensure security of electricity supply and prevent blackouts; and a new regulator for nuclear power, the Office for Nuclear Generation.
  • (15) But the industry is waiting for clarity about the levels the various tariffs will be set in terms of pence per kilowatt hour of energy produced.
  • (16) Its mission is to match our village's domestic electricity consumption kilowatt for kilowatt with community-owned, locally generated renewable energy – and to re-unite our community behind this ambitious goal.
  • (17) Five years ago, a lithium-ion battery would fetch over $1,000 per kilowatt-hour in wholesale price.
  • (18) According to Dr Matt Prescott, the founder of Ban the Bulb ( banthebulb.org ), which is campaigning for CFLs to be given tax breaks to further increase their use, about 4 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity is required to produce a CFL, compared with 1 kWh to make an incandescent bulb.
  • (19) Ministers have announced proposals to cut the amount paid for domestic solar arrays from 12.47p per kilowatt hour to 1.63p for new systems from January 2016 - a fall of 87%.
  • (20) Alexander says he wants to establish a target range of 50g–100g of CO2 per kilowatt hour for the decarbonisation of the power sector by 2030.

Watt


Definition:

  • (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (2) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
  • (3) Twenty watts constant wave Nd-YAG laser operating at 1.06 micron was enough to produce complete A-V block in approximately 15 sec.
  • (4) The data shows the power (watts) delivered by the monopolar probe to be approximately six times that of the bipolar probe.
  • (5) Furthermore, a significant correlation between maximal creatine kinase levels and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload and a significant inverse correlation between left ventricular ejection fraction and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload were observed.
  • (6) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
  • (7) Power (25 watts) was delivered via the Primus (Technomatix) transrectal microwave applicator with simultaneous cooling of the rectal mucosa (between 12 and 14C).
  • (8) When Watts Bar 2 is fully operational, it will be the 100th operating nuclear power plant in the US, the country with the most nuclear power stations in the world.
  • (9) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
  • (10) Busy job so no good for @ patrickwintour — Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) June 14, 2012 3.18pm: Cameron says it would be "overbureaucratic" to make a note of every time a politician met an editor.
  • (11) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
  • (12) I can't make myself into a big, powerful rider who can put out 300 watts per hour.
  • (13) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (14) What was it that they saw or heard that threatened our society,” Labor MP Tim Watts asked in response to the Christensen motion.
  • (15) The application of argon blue-green laser treatment at 0.1 watt for 60 seconds at two adjacent points on a feeder vessel was found to give rise to permanent vascular occlusion without causing complications.
  • (16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (17) In an open-paired comparison, sunscreens with low, medium and high SPF were examined under identical test conditions using either a 150-watt xenon-arc solar simulator or a set of four 300-watt Osram Ultravitalux bulbs as the UV source.
  • (18) Trade union membership and political affiliation are classified as sensitive information by the law and require a greater level of protection than simply personal information,” Watts said.
  • (19) To determine the effects and the underlying mechanisms of sudden rise of impedance during radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation, 60 RF applications were delivered to isolated preparations of ventricular myocardium at three different power levels (mean: 3.7, 11.3, 19.3 watts).
  • (20) The authors made a histopathological study of 53 haemorrhagic ulcers of the gastric mucosa of the dog, photocoagulated using an Argon laser apparatus (delivering a power of 6 watts at the tip of the fibre).

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