You just saved a bundle of time tossing your television. Why not toss the iron along with it?
Here's an iron--it uses 1700 watts.What's a watt? A watt is a rate of doing work, which, I'd imagine, doesn't help much. Even less helpful is telling you it's a joule per second.

We could talk horsepower, I suppose--a few problems:

• The definition varies
• And who has any idea how powerful horses are anymore?

Let's say 1 horsepower=550 pounds one foot in one second; let's round it to lifting 1 ton up one foot in just under 4 seconds.

One horsepower translates into about 750 watts--the iron above is greater than 2 horsepower. That iron has enough power to lift a ton up 1 foot in less than 2 seconds.

Where does your power come from?

Hydroelectric?
Your ironing requires a dammed river.
Nuclear?
Your ironing requires a waste disposal site that will last beyond western civilization.
Coal?
Your ironing strips away mountaintops.

For what?
To eliminate wrinkles. So you look presentable.

Toss it.