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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by mnw21cam on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:02AM (#16482991)
Units alert. Megawatt per day makes no sense. Perhaps you meant a megawatt-hour per day? Or, if driven for (say) 10 hours, 100kW.

For reference, the average family car engine can generate on the order of 75kW, so 100kW for a truck is quite good, I think.

Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by yuhong on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:53PM (#16487990)
I mean driving 500 miles per day for maybe 8 hours might require one megawatt.
Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by mnw21cam on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:34AM (#16490481)
A megawatt for 8 hours, so 8 megawatt-hours. That's an obscene amount of energy, and probably out by a factor of 8.
Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by yuhong on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:54PM (#16496741)
Yea, I mean 100 megawatt per hour for ten hours equals 1 megawatt per day of driving.
Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by mnw21cam on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:56AM (#16500284)
100 megawatt per hour is a rate of increase of power that means the total amount of energy proportional to the square of the time. I find it unlikely that a reasonable sized vehicle could sustain that rate of increase for long. After ten hours, the power would be 1GW, which would be sufficient to make the vehicle glow quite brightly. The vehicle would have used 5GWh of energy, the equivalent of 50000 battery packs of a Tesla 2017 Model S 100D.

I don't think what you are typing means what you think it means.

Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by yuhong on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:06PM (#16506893)
Sorry, 100 kilowatts per hour. it is a typo.