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[–] SunDevil@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Capable of drawing 28,000,000 watts of power" doesn't tell us anything. As was noted, it should've been given in megawatts (28 mW) or kilowatts (28,000 kW). Clickbait aside, how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) does it actually use?

28 mW isn't that much energy, relatively speaking. As of 2015, Forbes estimated LV uses 8000 mW on an average summer day.

The potential is impressive. I doubt it pulls anywhere near that. Unless I did my math wrong, this seems sensationalist.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just Fyi, mW is milliwatts, and MW is megawatts. Agreed though, I doubt it draws that much day to day.

[–] SunDevil@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you, I stand corrected!

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