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GW is a very important characteristic of an energy storage system, especially as a ratio of GWh. A technology could store 100TWh, but if it can only release 1kW
by fiter 9y ago
GW is a very important characteristic of an energy storage system, especially as a ratio of GWh. A technology could store 100TWh, but if it can only release 1kW, I'm not interested.
The comment you replied to said "just a valid and important measurement as the amount of energy it stores". The comment didn't say power was the same thing as energy, it says that the power is as important as the energy. I don't think this would fail high school physics.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoLet me quote that thing for you again. Parse is again, more slowly this time, and see for yourself: > GW is [...] a valid and important measurement as the amount of energy it stores There's no way to sugarcoat it. This is like saying km/h is a measurement of distance.
- fiter 9y agoYou're reading it like this: > GW is [...] a [..] measurement as the amount of energy it stores. Which doesn't parse. If the text read "of" instead of "as", I might agree with you. As it stands, it doesn't correctly parse either way. Given the full context of the statement, the more likely original intention was that: > GW is [...] just a[s] valid and important [a] measurement as the amount of energy it stores.
- JshWright 9y agoOnce you fix the obvious typo there, it says "GW is [...] _as_ valid and important measurement as the amount of energy it stores" Which is entirely true... Both the overall capacity, and the rate at which it can deliver power are critical metrics for an energy storage system.