one petawatt is 1000 terawatts; peta is a prefix people will get to know in a year or two once terabyte drives prove too small to store very many illegally downloaded BluRay moviesThe post's actually about "a laser that pound for pound is the brightest light source in the Universe," but Phil's right - "peta" is on its way to public consciousness.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Welcom, Peta
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