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10kW isn’t a quantity it’s a rate. Do you mean 10kW of demand 24/7/365 because that’s roughly 7200 kWh a month which is high by I’d say 20x?

by zaroth 4y ago

dredmorbius 4y ago
Yes, it's a rate. This isn't household energy consumption, it's per capita energy consumption. Take the 100 Quad (quadrillion BTU) total annual energy usage of the US and divide by the 330 million population, and convert the result to kW: You have: (100 quad/year) / 330 million You want: kW * 10.131338 / 0.098703643 The net power consumption for each American is 10 kW constant. That's about 10 electric hair dryers running 24/7/365. It accounts for all energy usage --- domestic/residential, transportation, commercial, and industrial. As well as lost (waste) energy. And yes, it's a lot. The 2021 actual total US energy consumption was 97.3 quad. So I'm about 2.7% high. That's still 9.9 kW constant though. https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/ https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/
- zaroth 4y ago
  Got it! Not household use but total national energy usage divided by population. It’s per capita energy usage but I hesitate to call it per capita consumption. Consumption would probably want take into account the massive trade deficit, and so its even higher!
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Consumption would probably want take into account the massive trade deficit, and so its even higher! That would be correct :-/ The true raw material footprint of nations 03 September 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/true-raw-material-footprint-nations https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom.... The material footprint of nations Thomas O. Wiedmann [email protected], Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, +3 , Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto-3 September 3, 2013 | 112 (20) 6271-6276 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220362110

10kW isn’t a quantity it’s a rate. Do you mean 10kW of demand 24/7/365 because that’s roughly 7200 kWh a month which is high by I’d say 20x?

by zaroth 4y ago

10kW isn’t a quantity it’s a rate. Do you mean 10kW of demand 24/7/365 because that’s roughly 7200 kWh a month which is high by I’d say 20x?

dredmorbius 4y ago

Yes, it's a rate. This isn't household energy consumption, it's per capita energy consumption. Take the 100 Quad (quadrillion BTU) total annual energy usage of the US and divide by the 330 million population, and convert the result to kW: You have: (100 quad/year) / 330 million You want: kW * 10.131338 / 0.098703643 The net power consumption for each American is 10 kW constant. That's about 10 electric hair dryers running 24/7/365. It accounts for all energy usage --- domestic/residential, transportation, commercial, and industrial. As well as lost (waste) energy. And yes, it's a lot. The 2021 actual total US energy consumption was 97.3 quad. So I'm about 2.7% high. That's still 9.9 kW constant though. https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/ https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/

zaroth 4y ago
Got it! Not household use but total national energy usage divided by population. It’s per capita energy usage but I hesitate to call it per capita consumption. Consumption would probably want take into account the massive trade deficit, and so its even higher!
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Consumption would probably want take into account the massive trade deficit, and so its even higher! That would be correct :-/ The true raw material footprint of nations 03 September 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/true-raw-material-footprint-nations https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom.... The material footprint of nations Thomas O. Wiedmann [email protected], Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, +3 , Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto-3 September 3, 2013 | 112 (20) 6271-6276 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220362110 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220362110