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The phrase "2 MW of energy" makes no sense based on units. Shouldn't writers (and editors) be required to at least take high school physics or chemistry?
by bluenose69 3y ago
The phrase "2 MW of energy" makes no sense based on units. Shouldn't writers (and editors) be required to at least take high school physics or chemistry?
- grdgyredb 3y agoI took those things m, and I’m a successful software engineer and founder with an exit. I can never remember anything but joules for energy. Which I think doesn’t matter? And my RV has amp-hours? No fucking idea.
- Tostino 3y agoBut are you writing articles about the topic?
- peddling-brink 3y agoJournalists are just failed CEOs.
- meatmanek 3y agoAs far as I can tell, they mean they can bring up to 2 MW of power online, with nothing said about the energy storage capacity of the site.
- RugnirViking 3y agoto be fair they might be somewhat confused by marketing copy. I've worked on installations like this, and its not uncommon for capacities to be specified as something like 50MW battery (4 hours). sometimes the number of hours is written in a different place to the base output capacity. I think it started because originally the idea is that the battery is some number of hours multiple of the production of a generating asset, like on-site wind. In fact capacity payments and stuff in some countries (read: subsidies) can be different based on the number of hours of the battery