20 August 2007
Sunny Science
Our iconic new building is covered in solar panels, mega-techy-poly-christaline louvres, and general shininess. A bloke has just stuck up a little information sign with a built in monitor so we can all keep tabs on how wonderful and environmentally friendly we're being in our massive offices while we have the air conditioning on full blast and a few hundred computers pumping their evil out into the atmosphere. But having read the thing, I still have no idea what I'm looking at.
This morning's readings were at:
- 90.00 kW
- 8.120 MWh and
- 3.491 t
Is that good? Should I be running from the building for fear that the sun's rays are going to bake me alive? Should I be busy scoffing at how much money they've spent on this crap?
I need a geeky type to tell me what it all means.
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90kilowatts.
8.12 Mega Watt hours
3.491 tons
I would guess that 90kW is quite a lot of power. Your PC will use about 0.4kW.
MWh is what they measure (and what your home provider charges you by - actually they measure in kWh which are smaller by a factor of 1000) - A 1 kW thing on for 1 hour uses 1 kWh.
3.491 tons - I would guess is that many tons of CO2 "not pumped out" because they're using cleaner energy production.
Any of that make sense?
Posted by: Alby | 20 August 2007
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