Re:Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
by douche on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:11AM
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Holy shit, is that really what a 747 draws? That is nuts. I worked for a few summers at a powerplant that put out about 40-50 MW/h, burning wood biomass.
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Re:Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
by majewsky on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:35AM
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As a physicist, I'm always surprised how people generally get units right [1], but they shoot themselves in the foot multiple times over when trying to measure power and energy.
MW/h doesn't make any sense. A unit of power would be MW, a unit of energy would be MWh (megawatt times hour, not divided by hour). MW/h would be a power increase over time, which is surely not what the parent means.
[1] Unless they're in the US, Liberia or Myanmar. :)