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* Assuming the "Unit of Renewable Energy" is watt-hours. In SI units (Joules) they have long passed this "milestone".
by tzahola 9y ago
* Assuming the "Unit of Renewable Energy" is watt-hours. In SI units (Joules) they have long passed this "milestone".
- baking 9y ago100,000 GWh per fiscal year (2017-18) Edit: Wikipedia has them at 195,242 GWh in 2015 but that includes large-scale hydroelectric.
- lovelearning 9y agoI think the author of the article has got either his numbers or the metric units quite wrong. 100,000 GWh = 100,000,000,000,000 (giga => x 10^9) which means it's actually the 100 trillionth unit. And he repeats the mistake when saying "...and one hundred thousand million units of electricity has eleven zeros" - indeed it does but then 100000 million units is not 100000 G units. EDIT: Actually I'm the one who got it wrong. Apparently, electrical "unit" here is kWh not Wh, TIL.
- baking 9y agoWell, kWh are the traditional unit for electrical power. (And yes, I know it is actually a unit of energy.)
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- taneq 9y agoIf you have to assume the units of a claim, that certainly makes it a pretty meaningful claim.
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- jcranmer 9y agoClearly, the unit here should be British thermal unit. :-)