May 14, 2020 7:36 AM
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thatclimbingguy
Oh god this nearly blew out my speakers.
ForeheadAirport
6 megawatts of Power*, not energy.
Houkouha
why use floats, when you could use doubles? increased precision baby
FlexGunship
Damnit. This is why I didn't want sound in GIFs.
groovydawgs
Giant shake weight.
LordKinboat
Argh, pixels. Gakk! Sound!
Cadpig
I like the music. Anyone got a source for it?
wargames
very expensive and high maintenance for not too much return.
iwantsomemushu
Fire music
neVercaneVer
Look up Salter's Ducks..
ByThePowerInjestedInMe
called FLOATS
Chefpnut
WOOHOO! I DIDN’T UNMUTE!
LeraviTheHyena
Hey it's like the pump stations on titan
Lonemorgen
A mass of steel is required, steel requires coal, hypothetical saving of Co² after xxx years operation not maintenance with steel/coal/oil
DarthLabradoodle
Shhhh, don't spoil it like that. Calculating the Co² input costs and expecting a break even... Kinda harsh, dude.
What is clean with that!?
Redshirt101
It's smart that they are back-up barges but those need generators running on diesel. And unless the legs are embedded in the seafloor 1/2
2/2 like the wind turbines the seafloor around legs will erode and be washed away by the current and the whole thing would capsize
MadMupp
So whenever there is bad weather they produce no power?
flufflogic
As Seen on Titan™, Destiny fans...
IdealTrajectory
Sloane probably runs this place, too.
rainhearse
My thought exactly
ObliqueRay
Do they give more or less cancer than windmill noise?
MoonPieTown
Less cancer, but more danger from sharks with giant friggin laser beams attached to their heads
GildedGoblin
Wow, it's *in* Denmark? Didn't know that Denmark had already sunk below the ocean.
Riddlen
Stealing all the energy from the moon! ?
nonCanadianGoose
Okay, but can we protect them in severe weather.
Chereazi
They clearly stole that idea from Destiny 2
awesomespeler
Or Cities: Skylines
I like the Horizon: 0 dawn. Geothermal plants around Yellowstone to relieve pressure so the supervolcano doesn’t destroy us
TheBestia93
The sad thing is that someone really believe that thing!
Oreo13
Simcity
Sendmen00ts
Just like how we stole the idea of a tablet from star trek
NOINOON
False. It doesn't convert shit because it was scrapped in 2016.
LovelyMover
Where do we put the petrol?
ViolentPanda
If they steal all the oceans kinetic energy the sea will go flat and the planet will die
Well, if we were to pump all the extra Co² into the oceans, it would be carbonated, never go flat, and we'd stop climate change.
yacko69
they stole this idea from Destiny
sutats
Build a wind turbine and solar panel on it
rihani3
Modern windmills produce about 10MW EACH! While being cheaper, simpler, easier to maintain etc. Wave power is simply not feasible.
Seems like high maintenance and tough to figure out where to place and how to transport the stored energy to the mainland. Cool concept tho
The wave thing...not windmills of course
Transporting energy is not really an issue. We already do this for offshore windmill parks etc. And AFAIK they have to be semi close to
shore to work, since this is where the waves get biggest/right shape/periods or something(not sure, just seem to have beard somewhere).
Main issue is that it is a direct competitor to wind power(no wind = no waves), and windmills are simply simpler/cheaper/better.
ShadeFawks
But-but won't that use up all the waves?? What about the beach goers who like those waves????
Mewmus
cause "Fuck em' " that's why
Inarticulated
Infinite waves until this disappears
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
This guy gets it.
Pffft you believe in the moon?
symmetry7
I've never understood waves ...
sirfanciesadrought
https://kidspressmagazine.com/science-for-kids/misc/misc/tides-formed.html
cepacolusmaximus
When I flap my hand at you, you flap back.
xanius
There could be unintended consequences due to interruption of flow once at large scale. Similar to large scale solar/wind in the Sahara >>
But is increase rainfall a bad thing? More rainfall if they plan for it can mean better crop yields
It also increases local temperature. And what does changing the Sahara to not a desert do to the rest of the regions weather? The hot dry >>
Winds from the desert affect the weather patterns of the entire region,possibly further.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/1019
NotHerrVonClaussen
I need a frame of reference. How much can a megawatt power?
Patapus4
At least 4 bananas
mknut389
Roughly 1000 homes in Europe, maybe 650 homes in the US
IdiotSavantTinker
Not exactly an answer, but a megawatt is also 1,333 horsepower. Cars actually use a lot of energy.
LicensedToChill007
I know it takes 1.21 GW to transport a Delorean through time if that helps.
technicalfool
https://gridwatch.co.uk/
JumpingSandmann
Nice link!
KyleButNotThatKyle
Only about 0.08% of what it takes to power one time machine.
TheWhiteBarry
My car gets 4 mi/kwh. So 1 mwh = 4000 miles of travel in an efficient EV
WilmaDikfit
1 million bananas
trigonman3
Yer a million wizards, Harry.
cormone
About 50 bananas
patismaximus
69
FabulousBadass
North American homes consume about 1MWh per month. So 2-3 Kwh per day, so 6 MW, about 2000 to 3000 homes.
Djinngineer
Depends how long you can maintain it. For 1 sec? Not much. 24/7/365? Significantly more. MWh is a more useful metric than MW (w/o context).
Solar panels don't produce when the sun doesn't shine or at night. Same with wind turbines and...well, wind. Can't assume 100% uptime.
Nuclear plants regularly achieve 90%+ uptime. Wind & solar are in the 25-35% range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
0masuk0
But... You cannot say this power plant is X MWh. It makes no sense. How much MWh is your car?
Sure you can. You can say the plant produces X MWh/day on average, which you could use to roughly calculate the production uptime.
BennyLarva
Your mom needs 5
Esion9302
I am more interested in the timefrake. 6 an hour, a day, a lifetime???
steelinmyhead
There are 10e-6 timefrakes in a kilowhut. Now just carry the 1 and the maths do itself. See?
mabbo
1 watt = 1 joule / second. So the answer is "per second", sort of.
upsidedownalarmclock
Good reference (if you’re English) is that a kettle uses 1kwh, so it’s 1 thousand hours of the kettle being on
actualseal
The KettleWatt
vowofloudness
kWh is kilowatt-hour. A kettle uses 1 kilowatt (kW), so if you leave it on for an hour that's 1 kWh.
tinyfootprints
My kettle uses 1.8KW but it comes to a full boil in under 2 minutes, so that's less than 0.06 KWh. (Induction technology)
About ten minutes for OP's mom's dildo.
Magnum3point141592654
@CoreDeep knows
drunkenxtomato3000
Yeah, I expanded the comment expecting that. A Watt is a unit of energy flow rate there would be no time limit though
MAN9000
But... nuclear power is so clean...
Except for mining the fuel, refining the fuel, disposing of the fuel..
IShouldntReallySayThat
Not great, not terrible
Marsssan
Expensive+++. Slow to build. Lack of political will to promote it. No significant carbon emissions but not without problematic waste 1/2
2/2 Nuclear's time was 20 years ago. Wind, solar and soon batteries will be so cheap that electricity generation will be a no brainer.
3crowsBeast
Yes, that's the messy awful type that was chosen by warmongers. There is another safer cleaner and more sustainable type of nuclear power.
You're right. It was definitely the way to go 20 years ago. But $$$. They can't compete with wind and solar. Money makes the decisions.
hotrodny
Yes, it is. Problem is that ppl base their opinions on 30 year old fears.
The residents near Fukushima must be so relieved to hear that.
Well, building a nuclear power plant on a tectonic fault line isn't the best idea. Still not any problem with the technology itself.
!? Do you know anything about the design of that plant and why it failed? My God!
spanish982
None of the residents died from the the nuclear accident
I didn't say they did. @hotrodny was implying there hasn't been a nuclear disaster in 30 years.
UseTheSource
for other context: most new solar turbines produce 8 megawatt.
But only at noon.
AARGH! *Wind* turbine
Mazan
What is a solar turbine mate? :O
I'll let you know if I find out.
UserChecksNameOut
Solar turbine? I'm sorry, what?
Wind turbine. I meant a wind turbine. I'm stupid.
Lol happens, it doesnt mean u're stupid......it's all the other things you do that makes you st....... jk
Millsslslsls
Some solar stations don't use the photoelectric effect and just focus light onto a pipe of oil, shoot oil in water tank, steam spins turbine
Oh wow, learned something new today, thanks
you give me much more credit than I was due. Thanks. I wasn't talking about heliostat power, I just had a small stroke.
Tommytooturnt
Did they say how many megawatts this thing produces?
StarkRG
It says each float produces 6MW. I am extremely sceptical of that.
ottman001
It says each power station produces 6 megawatts, not each float. That is probably peak performance during rough seas.
That's awful, and I'm still sceptical. They tested it and STILL think it's useful? Seems like one of those ideas you have in high school.
Snuffalybuns
Yeah I'm kind of thrown off by that. They don't say how big the plant needs to be to make that much. Or the price.
It says a complete station has 20 floats, so each float produces 300 kW. No mention of price, or maintenance costs. Probably unfeasible.
242seehund242
And not too rough seas, then it shuts down. Just like windmills, it's only usable when the wind is within specs.
The requirements in area, materials, resource usage, installation, maintenance et c don't make sense. Just like windmills. Tax subsidies...
TitoAndy
NicoBisso
1 MW = 600 super bowls??? Plain wrong dude
ookieman
About one house power bill per month.
IHateApostrophes
I like how a traffic light uses 33% more power than a refrigerator, yet somehow lasts just as long when given the same amount of energy.
Rubyredslippers33
So much coffee!!!!!! Yeeeee
ilwrath
Keep in mind, sustained megawatts and megawatt hours can be very different things. It is unclear the time period this video is referring.
weirdsmith
Watts or kilowatts or megawatts are an instantaneous measure of power. Watt hours etc are a measure of energy produced or consumed.
epaandersson1337
Are these American measurements?
Like... Superbowlparties/hour...
IfYouTookTheTimeToReadThisYouHaveNoLife
Well here we use football fields to measure distances, and Superbowl parties/iPhone charges to measure food, power and water.
What you dont get not being an American is that this is based on the 20 guest model system of a 3500 square foot house with constant AC & TV
Bear in mind this is MWH. So a 6MW plant produce 6MWH each hour. Alternatively, an electric kettle uses about 1000W, so it can power 6000
angrytaco
A microwave or PC uses 1000w, that seems excessive for a kettle. 1000w is enough power to fry most nichrome heaters
Extremely few PCs can use 1000W, even at peak performance. And 1000W kettles are on the low end. Mine is 1350-1600W.
Ah yeah looking around I see that now. I guess heating water is a very energy intensive process after all. My b
ElMuchoWanko
TIL a single traffic light consumes more power than a fridge. Jesus, think of the hundreds of lights a town has.
MaxZimuss
I know nothing, but i can’t help but feel that’s impossible. Especially with some LED traffic lights.
DragothMP5
Old school traffic lights were floodlights pointing in four directions at least. 4x75w bulb = 300 watts. LED is probably much better.
SagasOfUnendingLoss
Came here to say: what the fuck is going on inside a traffic light???
thechangeintimewithrespecttospace
Can 1 MW do all of those things collectively or are each of those one MW worth of power usage?
Sigberd
All of them collectively
Nevermind. I went back and read.
Iwontbeback
good on ya
DuckyofDeath123
Underrated but rewarding. Good lad.
LOL
CoreDeep
These numbers don't make sense. Starting with: 1MWh is one hour @1000KW. 1 fridge @150KWh would last 6.6 hours. Where do months come from?
anengineerandacat
I think it's referring to a traditional fridge, usually like < 2kwh a day.
Edit: Yeah, I suck at math today. Please ignore this.
A fridge uses between 500-1000w to run its compressor. So it's only using power when the compressor is on. 150kwh is the total over time
Thanks. I completely misunderstood the image. This answers some of the confusion I had.
EngineeringDoc
It's saying that the fridge for months is 150 kWh. 1MWh can power all of those things collectively
Wow, that wasn't clear at all and entirely defeats the purpose of a comparison infographic. Thanks though.
Thanks. I misread some external sources. The fridge in this image uses 70W, which makes much more sense.
What the fuck kind of fridge do you have that uses that much electricity?
Maybe Nancy Pelosis gourmet ice cream storage facility?
Yeah...I completely misunderstood the image here. My bad.
Fucking RAW. If these oil barons die from corona i might get to see the switch to remewable energy before i die!
feeltheice
Lol, you see the state of the economy now? Now initial everyone being pissed because they don’t have power.
sebastVillain
Slim chance,they will be preserved in that oil and live forever or until the oil runs out.
The oil barons realize their situation and are looking to get out before the end of dirty carbon power. That’s why oil is cheap rn imho
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Oil won't run out if enough people die from Corona to decompose into new oil in the future!
Interesting concept but not enough people will perish,other thing is it'll take millions of years for your plan to come to fruition.
Woestkonijn
Do you know how long that takes? Plus, animals rarely turn into oil, we are harvesting the dead forests from when there were no bacteria yet
thatclimbingguy
Oh god this nearly blew out my speakers.
ForeheadAirport
6 megawatts of Power*, not energy.
Houkouha
why use floats, when you could use doubles? increased precision baby
FlexGunship
Damnit. This is why I didn't want sound in GIFs.
groovydawgs
Giant shake weight.
LordKinboat
Argh, pixels. Gakk! Sound!
Cadpig
I like the music. Anyone got a source for it?
wargames
very expensive and high maintenance for not too much return.
iwantsomemushu
neVercaneVer
Look up Salter's Ducks..
ByThePowerInjestedInMe
called FLOATS
Chefpnut
WOOHOO! I DIDN’T UNMUTE!
LeraviTheHyena
Hey it's like the pump stations on titan
Lonemorgen
A mass of steel is required, steel requires coal, hypothetical saving of Co² after xxx years operation not maintenance with steel/coal/oil
DarthLabradoodle
Shhhh, don't spoil it like that. Calculating the Co² input costs and expecting a break even... Kinda harsh, dude.
Lonemorgen
What is clean with that!?
Redshirt101
It's smart that they are back-up barges but those need generators running on diesel. And unless the legs are embedded in the seafloor 1/2
Redshirt101
2/2 like the wind turbines the seafloor around legs will erode and be washed away by the current and the whole thing would capsize
MadMupp
So whenever there is bad weather they produce no power?
flufflogic
As Seen on Titan™, Destiny fans...
IdealTrajectory
Sloane probably runs this place, too.
rainhearse
My thought exactly
ObliqueRay
Do they give more or less cancer than windmill noise?
MoonPieTown
Less cancer, but more danger from sharks with giant friggin laser beams attached to their heads
GildedGoblin
Wow, it's *in* Denmark? Didn't know that Denmark had already sunk below the ocean.
Riddlen
Stealing all the energy from the moon! ?
nonCanadianGoose
Okay, but can we protect them in severe weather.
Chereazi
They clearly stole that idea from Destiny 2
awesomespeler
Or Cities: Skylines
nonCanadianGoose
I like the Horizon: 0 dawn. Geothermal plants around Yellowstone to relieve pressure so the supervolcano doesn’t destroy us
TheBestia93
The sad thing is that someone really believe that thing!
Oreo13
Simcity
Sendmen00ts
Just like how we stole the idea of a tablet from star trek
NOINOON
False. It doesn't convert shit because it was scrapped in 2016.
LovelyMover
Where do we put the petrol?
ViolentPanda
If they steal all the oceans kinetic energy the sea will go flat and the planet will die
DarthLabradoodle
Well, if we were to pump all the extra Co² into the oceans, it would be carbonated, never go flat, and we'd stop climate change.
yacko69
they stole this idea from Destiny
sutats
Build a wind turbine and solar panel on it
rihani3
Modern windmills produce about 10MW EACH! While being cheaper, simpler, easier to maintain etc. Wave power is simply not feasible.
MoonPieTown
Seems like high maintenance and tough to figure out where to place and how to transport the stored energy to the mainland. Cool concept tho
MoonPieTown
The wave thing...not windmills of course
rihani3
Transporting energy is not really an issue. We already do this for offshore windmill parks etc. And AFAIK they have to be semi close to
rihani3
shore to work, since this is where the waves get biggest/right shape/periods or something(not sure, just seem to have beard somewhere).
rihani3
Main issue is that it is a direct competitor to wind power(no wind = no waves), and windmills are simply simpler/cheaper/better.
ShadeFawks
But-but won't that use up all the waves?? What about the beach goers who like those waves????
Mewmus
cause "Fuck em' " that's why
Inarticulated
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
This guy gets it.
ShadeFawks
Pffft you believe in the moon?
symmetry7
I've never understood waves ...
sirfanciesadrought
https://kidspressmagazine.com/science-for-kids/misc/misc/tides-formed.html
cepacolusmaximus
cepacolusmaximus
cepacolusmaximus
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
When I flap my hand at you, you flap back.
xanius
There could be unintended consequences due to interruption of flow once at large scale. Similar to large scale solar/wind in the Sahara >>
ShadeFawks
But is increase rainfall a bad thing? More rainfall if they plan for it can mean better crop yields
xanius
It also increases local temperature. And what does changing the Sahara to not a desert do to the rest of the regions weather? The hot dry >>
xanius
Winds from the desert affect the weather patterns of the entire region,possibly further.
xanius
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/1019
NotHerrVonClaussen
I need a frame of reference. How much can a megawatt power?
Patapus4
At least 4 bananas
mknut389
Roughly 1000 homes in Europe, maybe 650 homes in the US
IdiotSavantTinker
Not exactly an answer, but a megawatt is also 1,333 horsepower. Cars actually use a lot of energy.
LicensedToChill007
I know it takes 1.21 GW to transport a Delorean through time if that helps.
technicalfool
https://gridwatch.co.uk/
JumpingSandmann
Nice link!
KyleButNotThatKyle
Only about 0.08% of what it takes to power one time machine.
TheWhiteBarry
My car gets 4 mi/kwh. So 1 mwh = 4000 miles of travel in an efficient EV
WilmaDikfit
1 million bananas
trigonman3
Yer a million wizards, Harry.
cormone
About 50 bananas
patismaximus
69
FabulousBadass
North American homes consume about 1MWh per month. So 2-3 Kwh per day, so 6 MW, about 2000 to 3000 homes.
Djinngineer
Depends how long you can maintain it. For 1 sec? Not much. 24/7/365? Significantly more. MWh is a more useful metric than MW (w/o context).
Djinngineer
Solar panels don't produce when the sun doesn't shine or at night. Same with wind turbines and...well, wind. Can't assume 100% uptime.
Djinngineer
Nuclear plants regularly achieve 90%+ uptime. Wind & solar are in the 25-35% range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
0masuk0
But... You cannot say this power plant is X MWh. It makes no sense. How much MWh is your car?
Djinngineer
Sure you can. You can say the plant produces X MWh/day on average, which you could use to roughly calculate the production uptime.
BennyLarva
Your mom needs 5
Esion9302
I am more interested in the timefrake. 6 an hour, a day, a lifetime???
steelinmyhead
There are 10e-6 timefrakes in a kilowhut. Now just carry the 1 and the maths do itself. See?
mabbo
1 watt = 1 joule / second. So the answer is "per second", sort of.
upsidedownalarmclock
Good reference (if you’re English) is that a kettle uses 1kwh, so it’s 1 thousand hours of the kettle being on
actualseal
The KettleWatt
vowofloudness
kWh is kilowatt-hour. A kettle uses 1 kilowatt (kW), so if you leave it on for an hour that's 1 kWh.
tinyfootprints
My kettle uses 1.8KW but it comes to a full boil in under 2 minutes, so that's less than 0.06 KWh. (Induction technology)
ObliqueRay
About ten minutes for OP's mom's dildo.
Magnum3point141592654
@CoreDeep knows
drunkenxtomato3000
Yeah, I expanded the comment expecting that. A Watt is a unit of energy flow rate there would be no time limit though
MAN9000
But... nuclear power is so clean...
cepacolusmaximus
Except for mining the fuel, refining the fuel, disposing of the fuel..
IShouldntReallySayThat
Not great, not terrible
Marsssan
Expensive+++. Slow to build. Lack of political will to promote it. No significant carbon emissions but not without problematic waste 1/2
Marsssan
2/2 Nuclear's time was 20 years ago. Wind, solar and soon batteries will be so cheap that electricity generation will be a no brainer.
3crowsBeast
Yes, that's the messy awful type that was chosen by warmongers. There is another safer cleaner and more sustainable type of nuclear power.
Marsssan
You're right. It was definitely the way to go 20 years ago. But $$$. They can't compete with wind and solar. Money makes the decisions.
hotrodny
Yes, it is. Problem is that ppl base their opinions on 30 year old fears.
KyleButNotThatKyle
The residents near Fukushima must be so relieved to hear that.
hotrodny
Well, building a nuclear power plant on a tectonic fault line isn't the best idea. Still not any problem with the technology itself.
MAN9000
!? Do you know anything about the design of that plant and why it failed? My God!
spanish982
None of the residents died from the the nuclear accident
KyleButNotThatKyle
I didn't say they did. @hotrodny was implying there hasn't been a nuclear disaster in 30 years.
UseTheSource
for other context: most new solar turbines produce 8 megawatt.
FabulousBadass
But only at noon.
UseTheSource
AARGH! *Wind* turbine
Mazan
What is a solar turbine mate? :O
UseTheSource
I'll let you know if I find out.
UserChecksNameOut
Solar turbine? I'm sorry, what?
UseTheSource
Wind turbine. I meant a wind turbine. I'm stupid.
UserChecksNameOut
Lol happens, it doesnt mean u're stupid......it's all the other things you do that makes you st....... jk
Millsslslsls
Some solar stations don't use the photoelectric effect and just focus light onto a pipe of oil, shoot oil in water tank, steam spins turbine
UserChecksNameOut
Oh wow, learned something new today, thanks
UseTheSource
you give me much more credit than I was due. Thanks. I wasn't talking about heliostat power, I just had a small stroke.
Tommytooturnt
Did they say how many megawatts this thing produces?
StarkRG
It says each float produces 6MW. I am extremely sceptical of that.
ottman001
It says each power station produces 6 megawatts, not each float. That is probably peak performance during rough seas.
StarkRG
That's awful, and I'm still sceptical. They tested it and STILL think it's useful? Seems like one of those ideas you have in high school.
Snuffalybuns
Yeah I'm kind of thrown off by that. They don't say how big the plant needs to be to make that much. Or the price.
StarkRG
It says a complete station has 20 floats, so each float produces 300 kW. No mention of price, or maintenance costs. Probably unfeasible.
242seehund242
And not too rough seas, then it shuts down. Just like windmills, it's only usable when the wind is within specs.
242seehund242
The requirements in area, materials, resource usage, installation, maintenance et c don't make sense. Just like windmills. Tax subsidies...
TitoAndy
NicoBisso
1 MW = 600 super bowls??? Plain wrong dude
ookieman
About one house power bill per month.
IHateApostrophes
I like how a traffic light uses 33% more power than a refrigerator, yet somehow lasts just as long when given the same amount of energy.
Rubyredslippers33
So much coffee!!!!!! Yeeeee
ilwrath
Keep in mind, sustained megawatts and megawatt hours can be very different things. It is unclear the time period this video is referring.
weirdsmith
Watts or kilowatts or megawatts are an instantaneous measure of power. Watt hours etc are a measure of energy produced or consumed.
epaandersson1337
Are these American measurements?
epaandersson1337
Like... Superbowlparties/hour...
IfYouTookTheTimeToReadThisYouHaveNoLife
Well here we use football fields to measure distances, and Superbowl parties/iPhone charges to measure food, power and water.
IfYouTookTheTimeToReadThisYouHaveNoLife
What you dont get not being an American is that this is based on the 20 guest model system of a 3500 square foot house with constant AC & TV
rihani3
Bear in mind this is MWH. So a 6MW plant produce 6MWH each hour. Alternatively, an electric kettle uses about 1000W, so it can power 6000
angrytaco
A microwave or PC uses 1000w, that seems excessive for a kettle. 1000w is enough power to fry most nichrome heaters
rihani3
Extremely few PCs can use 1000W, even at peak performance. And 1000W kettles are on the low end. Mine is 1350-1600W.
angrytaco
Ah yeah looking around I see that now. I guess heating water is a very energy intensive process after all. My b
ElMuchoWanko
TIL a single traffic light consumes more power than a fridge. Jesus, think of the hundreds of lights a town has.
MaxZimuss
I know nothing, but i can’t help but feel that’s impossible. Especially with some LED traffic lights.
DragothMP5
Old school traffic lights were floodlights pointing in four directions at least. 4x75w bulb = 300 watts. LED is probably much better.
SagasOfUnendingLoss
Came here to say: what the fuck is going on inside a traffic light???
thechangeintimewithrespecttospace
Can 1 MW do all of those things collectively or are each of those one MW worth of power usage?
Sigberd
All of them collectively
thechangeintimewithrespecttospace
Nevermind. I went back and read.
Iwontbeback
good on ya
DuckyofDeath123
Underrated but rewarding. Good lad.
Magnum3point141592654
LOL
CoreDeep
These numbers don't make sense. Starting with: 1MWh is one hour @1000KW. 1 fridge @150KWh would last 6.6 hours. Where do months come from?
anengineerandacat
I think it's referring to a traditional fridge, usually like < 2kwh a day.
CoreDeep
Edit: Yeah, I suck at math today. Please ignore this.
angrytaco
A fridge uses between 500-1000w to run its compressor. So it's only using power when the compressor is on. 150kwh is the total over time
CoreDeep
Thanks. I completely misunderstood the image. This answers some of the confusion I had.
EngineeringDoc
It's saying that the fridge for months is 150 kWh. 1MWh can power all of those things collectively
IHateApostrophes
Wow, that wasn't clear at all and entirely defeats the purpose of a comparison infographic. Thanks though.
CoreDeep
Thanks. I misread some external sources. The fridge in this image uses 70W, which makes much more sense.
Magnum3point141592654
Magnum3point141592654
What the fuck kind of fridge do you have that uses that much electricity?
MaxZimuss
Maybe Nancy Pelosis gourmet ice cream storage facility?
CoreDeep
Yeah...I completely misunderstood the image here. My bad.
NotHerrVonClaussen
Fucking RAW. If these oil barons die from corona i might get to see the switch to remewable energy before i die!
feeltheice
Lol, you see the state of the economy now? Now initial everyone being pissed because they don’t have power.
sebastVillain
Slim chance,they will be preserved in that oil and live forever or until the oil runs out.
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
The oil barons realize their situation and are looking to get out before the end of dirty carbon power. That’s why oil is cheap rn imho
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Oil won't run out if enough people die from Corona to decompose into new oil in the future!
sebastVillain
Interesting concept but not enough people will perish,other thing is it'll take millions of years for your plan to come to fruition.
Woestkonijn
Do you know how long that takes? Plus, animals rarely turn into oil, we are harvesting the dead forests from when there were no bacteria yet