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Yeah, that can't be right. You can tow a 100 kW generator (2.4 MWh/day) with a pickup truck.
by p1mrx 2y ago
Yeah, that can't be right. You can tow a 100 kW generator (2.4 MWh/day) with a pickup truck.
- zimpenfish 2y ago[0] suggests (without a useful link and my searching has not found one) that Heathrow is doing 460GWh annually. Presumably[1] that equates to 1.25GWh daily (which could be where the 1-2MWh/day came from - a simple unit error)? [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-21/heathrow-shutdown-highlights-dangers-of-a-single-point-of-failure https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-21/heathr... [1] I know precisely nothing about power consumption of large systems but dividing the annual figure by 365 seems plausible.