12 TWh
I don't get it
12B KWh = 12M MWh = 12,000 TWh?
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
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Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#52Good progress. Germany also shut down its nuclear sector and made up for it by burning crap tons of coal.
Coal usage in Germany has continued to shrink throughout the nuclear shutdown. It's at the lowest level it's been since the early days of industrialization.
I agree that nuclear should not have been phased out at the very least until coal was gone, but don't make up shit and say that they made up for the nuclear exit by burning more coal, that is untrue. Germany made up for it by building more renewables.
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#53Soo... 12 TWh? Isn't that why we have metric prefixes? So we don't have to say that there's 12 billion of something...
120 trillion dWh is how I like to think about this. Very impressive.
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#54Soo... 12 TWh? Isn't that why we have metric prefixes? So we don't have to say that there's 12 billion of something...
Billion can mean different things in different parts of the world. kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera- are the standard prefixes.
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#55Climate change has come through for us once again
The elevated temperatures actually reduce the efficiency of solar panels. The increase is due to more panels, not more solar flux on Germany.
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#56Soo... 12 TWh? Isn't that why we have metric prefixes? So we don't have to say that there's 12 billion of something...
Outside of tech circles, it's pretty normal to avoid using the uncommon prefixes. Nobody says the Earth has a 40 megameter circumference...
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#57Cool, a quarter of the country is in a "D4 exceptional drought" (1 in 50 years), half of the rest in a 1 in 30 years drought and the rest in good ol' regular drought. But the sun do be bright indeed
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#58Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
We could start by running container ships on High Sulphur Fuel Oil. Same CO2, more cushion against Sun Rays.
We stopped high sulfur when we realized it was causing acid rain. CO2 is also acidifying the oceans, so there aren't a lot of things we can pump into the atmosphere without consequence. Best to avoid doing that altogether.
We won't stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere (Germany, India and China actually increased coal burning in 2026, in all 3 cases despite all the good news about solar installations). Also we can't prevent fossil fuel producers from digging up fossil fuels.
And, because of entropy, reducing CO2 already in the atmosphere is a non-starter. For one thing, one can reasonably assume that would at minimum require doubling human energy output (because unmixing costs a lot more energy than mixing)
I mean if you put the belief behind the whole CO2 reduction in words, it's like this: if we slightly reduce CO2 output (not stop, reduce by single digit percent), we won't have to adapt. And if you put it like that it becomes easy to see: "no way in hell that's going to be true".
So there's not much of a choice: geoengineering it is. Next question: which method?
Re: Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
#6012 TWh
To answer tyromaniac's question that is dead and therefore I can't reply to: The United States utility companies bill by the kWh, so American-centric news will report in multiples of that unit. And as a sidenote, why do people downvote a question rather than answer it? Some of us like answering questions and deadening a question removes that ability.
European utilities also bill by the kWh, the markets bill by the MW or MWh (depending on the market product), yet we’d still use TWh to write this number.
The American way of handling units is always surprising.