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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by duxup on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:02PM (#35515268)
> the equivalent of an average coal power plant

Produces in an hour, four hours?

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by lordnacho on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:06PM (#35515321)
Continuous. We need one less coal plant to support the Firefox code after the bug fix.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by akomtu on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:42PM (#35515797)
Coal makes only 12% of the electricity, in the US at least. Natural gas makes 36% and oil makes 33%.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by flangola7 on Monday April 10, 2023 @03:15PM (#35516180)
What does that have to do with anything? "Coal plant" is being used as a unit of power here.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by akomtu on Monday April 10, 2023 @03:38PM (#35516438)
And a unit of pollution. I'm sure that one extra solar plant or hydro plant wouldn't draw as much attention.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by rimunroe on Monday April 10, 2023 @03:58PM (#35516700)
I'm pretty sure you're mistaking power for energy. Watts are units of power, which is the rate of change in energy (joules per second). Asking for how much power something produces in an hour is like asking how many miles per hour your car goes in an hour.
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