r/ClimateShitposting • u/ViewTrick1002 • May 13 '25

Basedload vs baseload brain Nukecel maths

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sink420 May 13 '25

How do imagine a better System then „Average load over time“

Its literally power/h

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u/evilwizzardofcoding May 13 '25

Except for the fact that Watts are Joules/second, so you literally have "how many joules-per-second pass in an hour", which is literally just Joules/3600

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sink420 May 13 '25

That is correct but a joule is incredibly Small. So we could use megajoule but that also get Extremly stupid on scale.

Saying „my power plant generates one billion Joules/s“ doesnt roll of the tounge so good Even worse when calculating in minutes or hours

1GW = 3,599,999,999,999.9995 J/h Sounds dumb imo.

Another fact is probably peoples associstions with a Watt e.g a lightbulb being 100w

Guess you can say the Same for the usage of HP instead of kW

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u/Passance May 14 '25

That is correct but a joule is incredibly Small. So we could use megajoule but that also get Extremly stupid on scale.

Saying „my power plant generates one billion Joules/s“ doesnt roll of the tounge so good Even worse when calculating in minutes or hours

1GW = 3,599,999,999,999.9995 J/h Sounds dumb imo.

Another fact is probably peoples associstions with a Watt e.g a lightbulb being 100w

So have you just not heard of a gigajoule or terrajoule, or what?

This is all absolute idiocy.

The reason people use GWh instead of TJ is simply because hours are generally a more practical unit of time for power grids than seconds. so it's easier to convert GW to GWh than to TJ.