Capacity

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capacity

Title text: Please dear GOD let there be nothing wrong.

Votey

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Popular science articles about energy often report dramatic findings like this:

Strictly speaking, nothing wrong was said, but the phrasing can be misleading

"capacity" is how much power you'd generate if the plant operated constantly. But solar stops operating when the sun goes down.

Sci Nooz. com

More solar capacity added this year than fossil fuel capacity

This is a non-trivial difference. To figure out actual output" of energy, multiply solar capacity by about 0.2, wind by about 0.3, fossil fuel by about 0.5 or nuclear by about 0.9.

As a public service, we hereby propose a simple way to remember the difference:

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Capacity:

Actual output:

Baby, I have the erotic capacity to do it 20 times tonight.

Ready for round two?

What, now?

But.. But

Come

You said.

Look, 5% is pretty good for me, ok?

With me.

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Best erotic nameplate capacity joke ever.

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