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13,400MW every second Clearly nobody checked this article.
by jonatron 7y ago
13,400MW every second
Clearly nobody checked this article.
- mc32 7y agoBut that’s against the average of 10GW, so that’s 3GW diff. Still a lot, but not what you’re listing.
- ggreer 7y agoA megawatt is a million joules per second. It’s a unit of power, not energy. Mixing up watts and joules is like mixing up miles and miles per hour. It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding.
- jo-m 7y agoquick googling shows that NYC uses ~11,000 Megawatt-hours each day, that seems more reasonable. But yeah, watts per second..
- perl4ever 7y agoI'd suggest that "watts per second" might just amount to a colloquial way of saying "watt-seconds". I mean, you have a number of watts "during" or "over" a second, so that is kind of "per" second. While yes, multiplying and dividing are opposites, and "per" generally means division, it seems to me there is a linguistic thing where polarities get switched or are just inferred from context.