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> just one of these turbines should be able to produce enough electricity to power 36,000 households of three people each for one year What is the point of add
by pkulak 3y ago
> just one of these turbines should be able to produce enough electricity to power 36,000 households of three people each for one year
What is the point of adding a time component in there? They always say weird things like this that make me double take. "Wait... does one revolution power 36,000 homes for a YEAR???" What's really annoying is that they aren't even wrong, just annoying.
- hamilyon2 3y agoConfusing power and energy units seems to be a constant theme not only in reputable press, but in a lot of publications that consider energy, infographics and so on. There are also instances of correct, but confusing units, like KW/h per year when talking about power. I don't understand it and probably never will. I think at this time readers in much of english-speaking world expect this type of errors and will mind the "correct" language, e.g. simply watts when talking about power. I think there is a joke somewhere here about all power stations stop working exactly after one year of coming online because of people unable to imagine amount of fuel per unit of time.