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Comment by johnea

Its an amazing phenomenon in Texas. I've seen a bunch of these wind and solar installations as I've driven through the state.

One technical issue with the article, and I see this a lot, is the unit of measure used to describe the storage capacity.

> Texas added nearly 1,500 megawatts of battery storage

In the addled, quasi-imperial units of the US, shouldn't this be megawatt*hours?

I once asked an english person about BTUs, they had no idea what I was talking about. Even though that is an allegedly British Thermal Unit.

Of course, in rational units this would be something like gigajoules:

1.0 Megawatt-hours (MWh) = 3.60 Gigajoules (GJ)

parent johnea 1 year ago

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