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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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