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I’ve seen that changing in the good way over time. Journalists used to have no clue about the difference between a megawatt and a kilojoule (some still don’t),
by kergonath 4y ago
I’ve seen that changing in the good way over time. Journalists used to have no clue about the difference between a megawatt and a kilojoule (some still don’t), but these days they are not afraid of discussing gigawatts and terawatt-hours in mainstream media.
- EntrePrescott 4y agoIndeed, it's bad enough when they mix up units of the same dimension, but ignoring different dimensions is even more stupid (though it has the advantage of being more easily detectable without even having to check the numbers). In that vein, a common mistake is to mix up multiplication with division, e.g. when they write "terawatt per hour" instead of "terawatt hour" for energy or "kmh" instead of "km/h" for speed.