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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption by tgb on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:40AM (#17091637)
That's 300 kWh not kW.
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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption by Freak_NL on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:32AM (#17092173)
A surprisingly common mistake nowadays. I've spotted a couple of times in a major Dutch newspaper over the past few years.

Perhaps it's easier to use Joule instead of kWh.

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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:48AM (#17092345)
It’s not a mistake. It’s pretty common and IMO as an EE to say kW when kWh is the only unit that makes sense. It’s colloquially acceptable.
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