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[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

28,000,000 watts

That's usually written as 28MW. I know some Americans don't like metric much, but one of the points of metric is that you don't ever need to write that many zeroes - you just need to use the right prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc) on the unit.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

you just need to use the right prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc) on the unit.

Oh, thanks.

Bruh, it's PC Gamer.

quick edit: Hey! Why aren't you converting it to Joules?

[–] Remavas@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because Joule is the SI unit of energy, meanwhile the Watt is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one Joule per second.

"Converting" joules to watts would be like converting m/s to US dollars.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I liked the analogy but I do think it would be clearer to say something like joules = money in bank account and Watt = spending per second

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