▲ 24 ▼ Geothermal Power Everywhere: Tech Advances Rapidly (www.youtube.com) submitted 2 years ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments Estimated heat energy in upper 10km of Earth's crust: 1 million billion Gigawatts
[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gigawatthours (GWh). Gigawatt (GW) is power, not energy. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kalkulat@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Yeah I thought about quoting the rest of that line ...'which would cover the world's energy needs for several hundred million years' but didn't feel like converting that to hours.... 10^6 x 10^9 x 10^x x 10^6 * ~8765.... it's a lot of energy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You don't have to convert anything. My comment was just to make clear that GW is for mesurement of power, whereas GWh is for measurement of energy. As your quote was dealing with energy, but using Gigawatts as unit, there was something obviously wrong. I've made it a habit to point that out in the hope of helping to make people realize the difference. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Yeah I thought about quoting the rest of that line ...'which would cover the world's energy needs for several hundred million years' but didn't feel like converting that to hours.... 10^6 x 10^9 x 10^x x 10^6 * ~8765.... it's a lot of energy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You don't have to convert anything. My comment was just to make clear that GW is for mesurement of power, whereas GWh is for measurement of energy. As your quote was dealing with energy, but using Gigawatts as unit, there was something obviously wrong. I've made it a habit to point that out in the hope of helping to make people realize the difference. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You don't have to convert anything. My comment was just to make clear that GW is for mesurement of power, whereas GWh is for measurement of energy. As your quote was dealing with energy, but using Gigawatts as unit, there was something obviously wrong. I've made it a habit to point that out in the hope of helping to make people realize the difference. permalink fedilink source parent