• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If you want a standard unit of measurement, I trust you can re-read the title and find “9GW” in there. That is a proper standard unit, but to most people a number so mindbogglingly huge makes no sense at all, so they added a comparison to something people are more likely to being able to even roughly conceptualize.

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      1 day ago

      That 9gw is not the whole amount. the total thermal load is 16GW.

      Which according to the pdf is equal to 40,000 Walmart supercenters if someone needs a non standard, American unit of measurement…

      • lukaro@lemmy.zip
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        Thats enough power to send Doc and Marty on 14 and half trips through time.