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You may be being downvoted because you have provided no citations or justifications for your claims, and because anti-electric shilling is, unfortunately, very

You may be being downvoted because you have provided no citations or justifications for your claims, and because anti-electric shilling is, unfortunately, very common on the internet. The oil industry has really amazing PR. Is "TW" supposed to be a terawatt? Because that is an enormously large amount of power. Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW. (Edit: Since I replied to this, you changed your units, and provided sources which I haven't yet checked.) Obviously, wind and solar cannot provide constant power, as fossil fuels can, but by building them in carefully selected locations, and combining them grid energy storage (which can be, but does not have to be, batteries[1]), un-evenness in supply can be smoothed out. [1]: Pumped storage hydroelectricity is another example.

tmikaeld 5y ago
Yeah, I changed the units to be clearer.
- maxnoe 5y ago
  Clearer? You shrank them by 3 orders of magnitude aka a factor of 1000. That's not "clearer", that's a huge adjustment.
  - tmikaeld 5y ago
    I'm sorry, the units where wrong, it's been corrected. It should, of course be 1GW = 1000 MW, to be clearer I changed it to MW.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Where was the terawatt? I only see tens of gigawatts in the new numbers.
    - maxnoe 5y ago
      No, they are not the same. You exchanged 10 TW with 10,000 MW. 10,000 MW = 10 GW = 0.01 TW.
yobbo 5y ago
> Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW. Whatever the original post, "annual consumption" could only be measured in TWh, which is several orders of magnitude larger than installed capacity (usually given in MW). Popular media usually mix these so one has to just guess based on context. (And annual consumption is usually misleading in this context due to seasonality of both hydro/wind production, and the higher power demand during winter.)

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You may be being downvoted because you have provided no citations or justifications for your claims, and because anti-electric shilling is, unfortunately, very

by LeoPanthera 5y ago

tmikaeld 5y ago
Yeah, I changed the units to be clearer.
- maxnoe 5y ago
  Clearer? You shrank them by 3 orders of magnitude aka a factor of 1000. That's not "clearer", that's a huge adjustment.
  - tmikaeld 5y ago
    I'm sorry, the units where wrong, it's been corrected. It should, of course be 1GW = 1000 MW, to be clearer I changed it to MW.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Where was the terawatt? I only see tens of gigawatts in the new numbers.
    - maxnoe 5y ago
      No, they are not the same. You exchanged 10 TW with 10,000 MW. 10,000 MW = 10 GW = 0.01 TW.
yobbo 5y ago
> Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW. Whatever the original post, "annual consumption" could only be measured in TWh, which is several orders of magnitude larger than installed capacity (usually given in MW). Popular media usually mix these so one has to just guess based on context. (And annual consumption is usually misleading in this context due to seasonality of both hydro/wind production, and the higher power demand during winter.)