Re:Australia approves 17-20GW solar power link to Singapore
by CorrectHorseBat on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:59PM
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You're off 3 orders of magnitude, 40,000,000,000 kg x 15,000 Wh/kg = 600TWh (you likely tripped on the kt, which is 1000x1000kg, at least I did the first time I ran your numbers). That's not 0.2% of Australia's energy use but 200%.
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Re:Australia approves 17-20GW solar power link to Singapore
by bigiain on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:52PM
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Ha! It figures. Further down that thread I wrote: "Also, I'm notorious for dropping three orders of magnitude when doing mental math using kilo/mega/giga/tera prefixes."
Turns out when you do the math right, Aluminium _is_ frozen electricity.