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Just a minute while I cringe at the units.

• haltcatchfire 1y ago
  > Yes, the water wheel will generate electricity all year round. In winter, it produces between 120 and 170 kWh per 24-hour period, with peak generation reaching up to 11 kW per hour. In summer, it generates between 3 and 5 kW per hour. Seems like a nice complement with solar, given that they peak at each others inverse.
  • mnw21cam 1y ago
    "kW per hour"
• dreamcompiler 1y ago
  I've seen worse. But yeah, "11 kW per hour" is meaningless.
  • dreamcompiler 1y ago
    Unless they're talking about the second derivative of energy I suppose: "My energy accelerates at 11kWh per hour per hour!" Which is not a thing anybody ever does. Oh wait, it matters for peaking power plants and Marx generators but there you'd use Joules/sec/sec rather than kWh/h/h.
    • tialaramex 1y ago
      Surely in that world you're mostly working with latency not some sort of "acceleration". 10 outfits who can each deliver 100MW in 5-10 seconds, does not give you 100MW in a second, it gives you 1GW in 5-10 seconds.