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by pfdietz 832 days ago
In contrast, world primary energy consumption is at a rate of around 20 TW, or five orders of magnitude more than that per year.
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For anyone else wondering about the five orders of magnitude:

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

Yearly total energy consumption 160 PWh (~18 TW of power)

114285 times more than 1.4 TWh