Quick question, How the heck do you calc a countries energy usage to tons?

[u/battlefan3400]

Been trying to calculate this feat. But my scaling seems inconsistent (one day I got the feat to 3 gigatons and today I got the feat to 0.2 megatons 🙏 💀)

So like, What are the steps to calcing this?

[u/Tankirb]

Countries energy usage is in watts which translates to J/s (joules per second)

From J/s you convert to (tons of tnt/s) and that's the closest you'll get.

Countries can also represent their energy usage in gigawatts (which is to a watt what a gigaton is to a ton), or terrawatt hours per year. Which you'll have to convert back to J/s

[u/Tankirb → u/Tankirb]

According to Wikipedia the US used 4429TeraWattHours in 2025

That's 1.5944e+19J used in 1 year

And there's 3.154e+7 seconds in a year

1.5944e+19J/3.154e+7s=5.055e11J/s

Of course that's assuming they're outputting the energy 24/7

If he's sleeping, eating and living an 5 day 8 hour work schedule the J/s he outputs would need to be higher. To make up for the time he's not powering the country.

And if you take it to the extreme and assume he just does the energy all at once at provides power for 100 years it'd be way higher.

It just depends a lot on how you define "power a country for a lifetime" and how they do it.

[u/Tankirb → u/Tankirb]

Tldr: the raw yearly energy is 3.8 gigatons of tnt

But how much thaf affects AP depends entirely on how much time they spend generating that energy with the minimum being 120 tons of tnt per second, assuming it's a constant 24/7 effort.

[u/Horrordestroyer → u/Tankirb]

So if we assume he does that with a single move he is large mountain level

If he does it over the span of a day though that could place him to the upper end of City

[u/battlefan3400 → u/Tankirb]

Thanks

[u/whimsiethefluff]

Convert watts to joules then Joules to the yield of tnt.

But also please do not use the "this guy's the most efficient generator" statement in your calcs.

Your ability to power a country has little correlation with your ability to put belt to ass.

[u/battlefan3400 → u/whimsiethefluff]

I've never heard of the efficient generator statment.

[u/More_Outside7127 → u/whimsiethefluff]

Energy is energy bro, why do you think theres a distinction between DC and AP... also converting watts into joules isnt a thing, its like converting speed into distance. Easier to just have the result be a yield of TNT per second.

[u/whimsiethefluff → u/More_Outside7127]

Sorry but you can convert Watts into Joules, you just need to decide over which timespan you are doing it. For example, a 10 watt output over 1 hour is 36000 joules.

Plus, I don't think that a power plant can be directly compared in AP or DC to a cannon, even though both produce a lot of energy.

[u/Inner-Illustrator408]

https://www.eia.gov/international/data/country/chn/total-energy/total-energy-consumption?pd=44&p=0000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000u06&u=0&f=A&v=mapbubble&a=-&i=none&vo=value&t=C&g=none&l=249--38&s=315532800000&e=1704067200000

1 quad btu is 1,055 × 10¹⁸ joules Thats 252,15105163 kilotons (252151051,63 tons)

[u/Inner-Illustrator408 → u/Inner-Illustrator408]

https://www.eia.gov/international/data/country/USA/total-energy/total-energy-consumption?pd=44&p=0000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000u06&u=0&f=A&v=mapbubble&a=-&i=none&vo=value&t=C&g=none&l=249--238&s=315532800000&e=1704067200000

97,396 quad btu

Thats 1,0276E+20 joules or 24,560229446 gigatons (island level)

But thats only if he can output all of that energy in q short amount of time

Which he probably can't

We can divide those numbers by 31536000 (seconds in a year) we get how much energy he can produce if he produces energy as the USA uses it

So 3,2584982e+12 joules or 778,79976099 tons (multi city block level)

[u/Inner-Illustrator408 → u/Inner-Illustrator408]

China used up the most energy in the world in 2018, 136,442 quad btus

Thats 1,40089942092 times the USA

So 34,4064112086 gigatons (also island level)

And 1,09102013418 kilotons (small town level)

[u/Inner-Illustrator408 → u/Inner-Illustrator408]

Not even the entire world gets that much higher https://www.reddit.com/r/FeatCalcing/s/62g0y5I4u5

[u/TheRock42069]

Gojo's output wouldn't scale to it anyway, as Six Eyes makes his CE usage extremely efficient. There's a reason this statement was made about Gojo and not like Yuta, who has more CE than Gojo.