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Anonymous ID: 54b5ba April 29, 2025, 1:51 a.m. No.22968808   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8831 >>8841 >>8855

>>22968795

Pedro Sanchez of Spain said that at 12:33 pm 15 gigawatt of power were suddenly lost from the system within just 5 seconds

 

15 GW is equivalent of 60% of the country's demand at that moment. The cause is still unknown, he added.

 

sauce:

Se supo la causa del apagón en España: últimas noticias de lo que está pasando en Europa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6X2N6BRpAo

@3min15sec

watch with Eng sub

Anonymous ID: 54b5ba April 29, 2025, 2:16 a.m. No.22968841   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8879

>>22968808 me

>>22968831

>>22968835 me

asked chatgpt:

 

A device that requires 15 gigawatts (GW) of power would be extremely large and energy-intensive, far beyond typical industrial or commercial needs. Here's a breakdown of what kind of things might demand that much power:

 

  1. Large-Scale Power Grid

15 GW is roughly the total electrical power demand of a medium-sized country or a major metropolitan area (e.g., New York City, on a hot summer day).

 

The entire UK grid demand typically fluctuates between 20–40 GW.

 

2. Hypothetical or Futuristic Systems

Particle accelerators or fusion reactors in theoretical designs (e.g., a scaled-up version of the Large Hadron Collider or ITER running at full capacity) might approach single-digit gigawatt ranges, but 15 GW would be beyond current operational levels.

 

Science fiction-level energy weapons, space elevators, or Dyson sphere infrastructure might be speculated to use power on that scale.

 

3. Military or Energy Projects

A hypothetical directed energy weapon (like a massive ground-based laser designed to shoot satellites) could require enormous amounts of instantaneous power, possibly in the multi-GW range.

 

4. High-Speed Mass Transit Systems

Something like a worldwide hyperloop system running at full capacity across continents might need that scale of power, although even this would likely be under 10 GW in most concepts.

 

So, no single conventional "device" today uses 15 GW—that's more like the total consumption of a region or a planet-scale machine.

 

Would you like a comparison with known devices or systems?