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Elon Musk: “All of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:53

You can't scale very much on Earth, but very much. To be clear, you're talking like terawatts. Yeah. Well, All of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt per hour on average. Yeah. So if you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much electricity as the United States currently consumes. So that's quite a lot. (04:53–04:59)

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