Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara

Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by wongarsu on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:11PM (#17929575)

For reference for anyone curious: the US has a final energy consumption of 6.0kW per capita, the EU average is about 2.9kW. (2009 data)

At that point, China was at 1.3kW/citizen, Africa at half that, India on the level of Africa and the middle East slightly below the EU with 2.3kW.

Wikipedia [2] uses world bank data instead which seems to measure differntly, but the relations are roughtly the same.

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Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by tasty_freeze on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:01PM (#17931565)

I'm confused by your wording and by wikipedia. Watts are a measure of power, not energy. kWh is a measure of energy.

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Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by wohlergehen on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:41AM (#17932757)

In the same sense as your server has an "energy consumption" of 2000W, i.e. 1W <=> 356*24/1000 kWh/a.

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Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by wongarsu on Friday September 07, 2018 @06:13AM (#17933106)

By saying they use 6kW I mean that each year they use 6kWa (kilowattyears), or 52569 kWh. And 6 kilowattyears per year is the same as 6 kilowatt.

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