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China constructs world's first dual-tower solar thermal plant — and it will help generate nearly 2 billion kWh annually (www.thecooldown.com)
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[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Two billion thousand. If only we'd come up with a better way to say that. Like some kind of system of metrics. Lmk if we come up with something

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Since the standard unit of electricity delivery is kWh, this notation makes way more sense to the average person than 2 TWh

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