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Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

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301 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 02:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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p1mrx ◴[26 Aug 25 17:34 UTC] No.45029734[source]▶
> it is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year

100 kW, in sensible units.

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1. ranguna ◴[27 Aug 25 08:02 UTC] No.45036746[source]▶
What do you mean sensible units? kW is instantaneous power whilst kWh is the amount of power created in a unit of time. In other words, this power plant generates 100kW of power and produce 876MWh in a year.

If you have an average of MWh a city needs, having MWh is a helpful metric, as well as kW to make sure you can power the city on peak consumption. No?