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OKIsItJustMe

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2. You really are pitiful... Whinging about units?

Reply to NNadir (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 8, 2024, 05:22 AM

Dec 8

I don’t know as I’ve every heard someone use Joules in relation to electricity.

A lightbulb is rated in terms of watts, not joules. Why? Because, when it is turned on, it draws a certain amount of power. When this array is producing power, it will be producing gigawatts.

By comparison, a nuclear reactor is typically said to produce about a gigawatt of power.

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The unit of energy is not the Watt. It's the Joule. A lighting bolt can produce a GW of power. It won't run Oregon. NNadir Dec 8 #1

You really are pitiful... Whinging about units? OKIsItJustMe Dec 8 #2

Um, one could take a science class to understand the point. NNadir Dec 9 #3