Perhaps the karma of the name the ship was christened with might have something to do with it. A president who was never elected by the people, may be just one of the aspects that manifests itself in the problem-plagued vessel.
Basic problem: watts is instantaneous power, watt-hours is total quantity of energy. This launcher uses tremendous amounts of power but only over a very short period of time. That does not translate to “as much energy as needed to handle a city...”
What??? That makes no sense. Comparing energy to power is like comparing distance to speed. They are related but not interchangeable. The top part has 100 megawatts on a 6.7% duty cycle spread over 12,000 houses would be 555 watts per house continuously. That's reasonable. Then the confusion comes trying to expand that over time to larger cities. If you run it for 17 minutes it will still only power those same 12,000 houses for that time.
Also, the small "m" is for milli rather than mega. This definitely takes megawatts. I figured 34 megawatts for a fully loaded F-18, not including the mass of the moving parts of the catapult itself.
I often see stuff like this and wonder, how do our “military - industrial people” and the WE MUST BUILD MORE crowd think China is going to pass us, when they are working on their first aircraft carrier. We built more than 100 during WWII and then came the nuke powered babies - not easy to beat in any time. Yes they, the Chinese are building, but there is a big jump from having a carrier and knowing how to go to war.
“Watts” are not consumed. The chart say, “In that time it can consume 100 m Watts.”
(BTW, ‘m’ in front of a unit means “milli-”, 1/0000. I think they they wanted ‘M’ for Mega, ‘million.’)
Power expressed in watts tells how much energy (in joules) is converted from one form to another per second. Or, in the English system one way of expressing energy is by how much energy in foot-pounds is converted to another form per second.
“Watts” times “time” is work or energy.
In other words, power is a rate that tells how rapidly you convert energy. You can’t buy or sell power, but you can buy or sell energy.
Our local energy cost is 12 cents per kWh. One kwh is equivalent to running one 100 W bulb for 10 hours, or 1.2 cents per hour.