Oh my goodness, that is correct.

The formula for active SPL at 3 feet for 1 Watt electrical power as a function of the number of actives then becomes:

SPL = 126 + 10*log(n)

Solving for n at 277dB, I get 1260E12. That is 1260 trillion actives. Each one needs 4.1 peak kW for a total of 5.2 quintillion Watts. That's one order of magnitude more than all the power produced last year.


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