Press Release: Nation's Largest (2.4 GW) Proposed Solar and Storage Project Receives Final (Oregon) State Approval

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3. Um, one could take a science class to understand the point.

I am completely aware that there are people who have not heard of electricity being described in units of energy, preferably as SI units.

Usually it shows, as it does here, particularly when accompanied with a cartoon. These types of cartoons are useful for children I guess, scientists, not so much.

I might have an alternate view of what is and is not pitiful, but no matter.

The unit of energy is the Joule, still. The derived unit, the Volt, is Joules/Coulomb. When Volts are multiplied by the derived unit Ampere, Coulombs per second, one attains the unit of power, the Watt, Joules per second. When one multiplies a Watt by time , the SI unit for which is the second, one obtains the unit for energy, again the Joule.

This kind of calculation should be covered in a high school physics course, under dimensional analysis.

The operative point is that a system that does not record the time that a system can be used is rather meaningless; to wit, it says nothing. This is why the poor capacity utilization associated with solar fantasies has done so little to address the collapse of the planetary atmosphere, because knowledge of what should be high school science lacks within the general public.