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the only thing that reveals who you really are by removing every reason to pretend.
means The capacity to act, produce an effect, or control people, events, and outcomes.
from From Old French 'poeir' or 'pooir,' meaning 'to be able,' which itself traces back to Vulgar Latin 'potere' — a reshaping of the classical Latin 'posse,' 'to be able.' That same Latin root gives us 'potent,' 'possible,' and 'potential.' So at its core, 'power' simply means being able to do something — the rest is what humans built on top of that.
- physics
- Measured in watts: energy spent per second.
- first watt
- Named for James Watt, steam engine refiner.
- absolute corrupts
- Acton's line was a warning, not a law.
- grid scale
- Earth burns about 18 trillion watts continuously.
- quiet kind
- The deepest power rarely needs to announce itself.
for instance
three gorges dam — world's largest power plant by capacity at 22.5 gw, completed 2012 in china
itaipu dam — second-largest hydroelectric power station at 14 gw, brazil-paraguay border