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You're making the same mistake again. The operation in "Terawatt-hour" is multiplication, not division. It's not Terawatt-per-hour, it's Terawatt-for-an-hour. 1

You're making the same mistake again. The operation in "Terawatt-hour" is multiplication, not division. It's not Terawatt-per-hour, it's Terawatt-for-an-hour. 1 TWh is the amount of electricity you consume when you run a 1 TW machine for 1 hour. Or a 2 TW machine for half an hour. Or a 500 GW machine for two hours. > US needs 3800TW of electricity every hour This alone should give you pause. "3800 TW of electricity" doesn't mean anything. A Watt is a unit of power. It's the flow of electricity, not an amount.

epups 3y ago
I was trying to place everything in the same unit as much as possible so that we could compare, and it appears I failed miserably. However, you seem to be really good at it. Could you tell me which proportion of the US' electricity needs (I didn't want to say power before because then we are including things like oil) can be fulfilled with 14 gigawatts of batteries?