• @[email protected]
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    114 months ago

    Two billion thousand. If only we’d come up with a better way to say that. Like some kind of system of metrics. Lmk if we come up with something

    • @Windex007
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      104 months ago

      Don’t even get me started on how Wh is energy divided by time multiplied by time.

    • LostXOR
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      84 months ago

      It works out to 7.2 PJ/year, or 228 MW average power output.

    • @judooochp
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      Oh. You’re talking about kilowatts. They use kilowatts because they’re trying to make it relatable to individual household usage.

      Sometimes I wonder how often there are translation issues between languages, and this was a false positive in my brain, so I’ll leave the original (edited) comment here:

      In different language systems, “billion” means 1,000,000,000,000. What we call a billion, some call a thousand million. Each “billion” meaning a group of six zeros. Now Americans and other English speakers use"short" scale. French still uses “long” scale, as do other languages. So when they say “thousand billion,” they probably are talking about what we English speakers call a quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000. (Checked a source, this is not a recent development)

      • threelonmusketeers
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        34 months ago

        what we English speakers call a quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000

        Irritatingly, that’s a quadrillion, not a quintillion.

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          Holy fuck, that is irritating. I was still in bed. Leaving it for posterity. Thanks for pointing it out. Even more irritating, I said each “billion” is a group of six zeros. Technical definitions aside, should have been “million”.

    • @[email protected]
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      04 months ago

      Since the standard unit of electricity delivery is kWh, this notation makes way more sense to the average person than 2 TWh