Just a minute while I cringe at the units.

haltcatchfire 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Yes, the water wheel will generate electricity all year round. In winter, it produces between 120 and 170 kWh per 24-hour period, with peak generation reaching up to 11 kW per hour. In summer, it generates between 3 and 5 kW per hour.

Seems like a nice complement with solar, given that they peak at each others inverse.

	▲	mnw21cam 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		"kW per hour"

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dreamcompiler 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I've seen worse.

But yeah, "11 kW per hour" is meaningless.

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dreamcompiler 6 days ago | parent [-]

Unless they're talking about the second derivative of energy I suppose: "My energy accelerates at 11kWh per hour per hour!"

Which is not a thing anybody ever does. Oh wait, it matters for peaking power plants and Marx generators but there you'd use Joules/sec/sec rather than kWh/h/h.

	▲	tialaramex 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Surely in that world you're mostly working with latency not some sort of "acceleration". 10 outfits who can each deliver 100MW in 5-10 seconds, does not give you 100MW in a second, it gives you 1GW in 5-10 seconds.