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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Terrawatt hours (per year, I assume?) is a strange way to express power usage. It’s like saying “my girlfriend lives only 60 km/h minutes away” instead of “1 km away”.

    And the value is equivalent to 2.74 gigawatts of continuous power output. Which is way too low to be right.

    But it’s what I’m finding online too. It’s like nobody understands what the units mean and they only care about relative changes over time.

    I did find the statement that “the total global electricity [generation] capacity in 2022 was nearly 8.9 terawatt (TW)”, which makes more sense.