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Very pedantic but I’d want to know. A watt is a unit of power, which means gigawatts per day is a rate of change of power. If you want a unit of energy you nee
by avoid3d 3y ago
Very pedantic but I’d want to know. A watt is a unit of power, which means gigawatts per day is a rate of change of power.
If you want a unit of energy you need power multiplied by time not divided, so “gigawatt days” not “gigawatts per day”.
- Faaak 3y agoMaybe they meant "gigawatt-hours per day"
- protomolecule 3y agoWhich gives you power again, not work. "gigawatt-hours per day" = gigawatt/24
- stephen_g 3y agoIf you consider that watt hours is just a convenience unit for (3600) joules, then “1 gigawatt hour each day” correctly should be “3600 GJ/day” which works.
- geon 3y agoWhich is a reasonable metric.
- protomolecule 3y agoExpressed in an unreasonable way.
- Etheryte 3y agoGigawatt hours per day is just gigawatt hours per 24 hours, so just gigawatts but divided.