Yes, the much more intelligent capitalists would never build huge cities with golf clubs, water shows and huge swimming pools in the frickin' desert, right?

50 comments should be here. I don't see any. Weird.

Stating with Firefox 61 -- expected to be released in June 2018 -- websites won't be able to use Firefox to access data from sensors that provide wanking and nose-picking information.

Indeed. It's a massive expenditure of energy, but at least it's not for high frequency trading or bitcoins!

Pretty much. Also, you spend 15 minutes finding the perfect head arrangement so that you see the singer, drummer and guitarist. Then comes a famous song and every idiot holds his phone over his head, and you don't see anything anymore.

That's a pretty high horse you've got here!
You might have understood those concepts but you do a poor job of communicating it.

Electricity is heat.

This sentence is quite simply 100% wrong.

Electricity is radiation!

Electricity is heat.

You don't seem to understand what "is" means. Electricity is linked to radiation and heat, but electricity is neither radiation nor heat.

It turned the USA from an energy importer into an energy exporter.

No it did not: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs...

The "shale revolution" merely postpones the withdrawal symptoms, it doesn't help to cure our oil addiction. And it surely doesn't help fighting climate change either.

Or, you now, "contant 2.4kW".

And sadly, this mistake is so common that it really isn't just a typo anymore.

To be fair, units are also wrong in TFA (and in the replies you've got).

1 kWh = 1000 Wh = 1000 * W * 3600s = 3 600 000 Ws = 3 600 000 J = 3.6 MJ

So 57.6kWh/day ~ 207.4 MJ/day

Here's a way to to convert energy/day into average power:

207.4MJ/day = 207.4 MJ/(3600 s * 24) = 207 400 000 / (3600*24) * J/s = 2400 J/s = 2400 W

The average power is 2.4 kW (not 2.4 kW/h as in TFA!). Which isn't suprising, because it's been calculated as 16 * 150W.

2.4 kilowatts per hour

Really? Seriously, WTF people? What happened to "News for nerds"?

PRO-TIP: If you're using Power/Time as a unit, you're probably doing it very wrong.

Climate change and peak oil are huge problems, they're coming at full speed and we're still not able to write correct units for power and energy?

My great-grandmother had 3 children. She told each of them, separately : "You're my favourite child, you'll get everything", but didn't write down any will.
She died 16 years ago, her children are still arguing today.

It's true, long gone are the days of getting 1000 upvotes for telling that the result of "1 / 2" is 0, not 0.5.

Still, I started regularly writing answers on SO less than a year ago. I got more than 30000 points, got a golden Ruby badge and I'm close to getting it for Python. After that, I'll finally be able to write some productive code again :D

A function can be increasing but bounded : 1-1/x for example.
It means that solar panel efficiency can always keep on improving while still being stuck below 50% forever. No need to achieve 105% ;)

A black planet? The proper term is African-Jupiterian, you insensitive clod!