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kW happens to be the unit of sale for power (well, technically, the kWh), so it ironically makes sense to use it here.
by DiabloD3 9mo ago
kW happens to be the unit of sale for power (well, technically, the kWh), so it ironically makes sense to use it here.
- trvz 9mo agoAnyone sending and receiving power through this project doesn't deal in kW.
- jacquesm 9mo agoAt scale that isn't true, it is either MW or GW for instantaneous power and MWh or GWh for energy.
- tuetuopay 9mo agoAt grid scales, kW is a rounding error. Even MW is somewhat the decimal place, especially for a country as large as China.
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- dbeardsl 9mo ago"Technically"? It's just wrong and I'm not sure which they were intending. Similarly, "miles and miles per hour are different units, it's not just a technical distinction. A journalist is reporting on something they don't understand.
- seydor 9mo agoare people charged for kW only? it's not like internet connections
- beAbU 9mo agoAnyone well versed in the metric system can easily scale up and down the orders of magnitude, and units like "millions of kilowatts" is just tautology in the end of the day. Also, like others have pointed out, kilowatts and kilowatt-hours are most certainly not used on grid scale projects. Mega- and giga- are the standard throughout.
- immibis 9mo agoShould have been 8 billion kWh per 1000 hours...
- general1465 9mo agoDo you have 8 million kilobytes, or 8 gigabytes of RAM?