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How visible are these things from the ground? Edit: Ignore the following line. It is too early in the morning. --A single one is producing 600KW, so you need

How visible are these things from the ground? Edit: Ignore the following line. It is too early in the morning. --A single one is producing 600KW, so you need a few per household, and many thousands for a town.--

jdc 7y ago
600KW / (1500W / microwave oven) = 400 microwave ovens See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kilowatt_hours_(energy)_and_kilowatts_(power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kil...
homero 7y ago
That's kw hours. A big house running air conditioning is only 6kwh.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  kWh is a unit of energy, that is, power over time, kW is a unit of power, that is, instantaneous energy. Your car engine is rated in power (typically horsepower in the US, though kW is equivalent), your car fuel tank is rated in energy, that is kWh or joules. Power determines how hard you can work. Energy determines for how long. A big house running AC for a hour would give you a kWh number. The instantaneous load is measured in kW.
  - homero 7y ago
    Yeah but if it makes 600kw then it can do it for an hour since it's a generator not a battery
abetusk 7y ago
The average US residential annual electricity consumption is around 11 MWh or around 30kWh / day (11,000 kWh / 365 days) [1]. Assuming it produces 600kW for 24h or around 14MWh / day, this services around 480 homes (600 kWh * 24h / 30 (kWh / home)). Their website explicitly says [2] (Overview 1.4): > designed to transfer up to 600 kilowatts of electrical power—enough to power about 300 homes [1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3 [2] https://makanipower.com/ https://makanipower.com/
rhinoceraptor 7y ago
If you were standing directly under a 36 meter wingspan kite, 500 meters off the ground, it would be about 16 times as wide as the size of the moon.

jdc 7y ago

600KW / (1500W / microwave oven) = 400 microwave ovens See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kilowatt_hours_(energy)_and_kilowatts_(power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kil...

homero 7y ago

That's kw hours. A big house running air conditioning is only 6kwh.

dredmorbius 7y ago
kWh is a unit of energy, that is, power over time, kW is a unit of power, that is, instantaneous energy. Your car engine is rated in power (typically horsepower in the US, though kW is equivalent), your car fuel tank is rated in energy, that is kWh or joules. Power determines how hard you can work. Energy determines for how long. A big house running AC for a hour would give you a kWh number. The instantaneous load is measured in kW.
- homero 7y ago
  Yeah but if it makes 600kw then it can do it for an hour since it's a generator not a battery

abetusk 7y ago

The average US residential annual electricity consumption is around 11 MWh or around 30kWh / day (11,000 kWh / 365 days) [1]. Assuming it produces 600kW for 24h or around 14MWh / day, this services around 480 homes (600 kWh * 24h / 30 (kWh / home)). Their website explicitly says [2] (Overview 1.4): > designed to transfer up to 600 kilowatts of electrical power—enough to power about 300 homes [1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3 [2] https://makanipower.com/ https://makanipower.com/

rhinoceraptor 7y ago

If you were standing directly under a 36 meter wingspan kite, 500 meters off the ground, it would be about 16 times as wide as the size of the moon.