[H-GEN] A modern mining rig

[James Mills]

Thank you for the explanations! :)
(I very much aware of the differences!)
Perhaps it'll be helpful for others! Nice examples
and explanatory description(s).

Yes. A family, ducted air-con, pool,
2 fridges and a deep freezer will
consume that kind of energy.

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Russell Stuart <russell at stuart.id.au>wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 19:14 +1000, James Mills wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure that I agree with the
> > typical household average of 300W
> > (over a year). Is this 300W/hr averaged
> > over the year?
>
> There was a mistake which I fixed in the next email - it should have
> been about 754W, not 300W.
>
> That aside, both figures are Watts, not Watt Hours.  A Watt is a measure
> or power, not energy.  The units are Joules per second.  So I am saying
> when averaged over the year, a household consumes 754 Watts every
> second.
>
> > Our household unfortunately has an energy
> > consumption of ~18MWh/annum (yes that's right
> > Mega Watts!)
>
> Indeed.  A MWh is a measure of energy, not power.  Since my 754 Watts is
> the amount of energy a house would consume in once second, you have to
> multiply it by the number of hours per year to get Watt hours consumed
> in a year.
>
> When you do that you get:
>
>     754 [Watts] * 24 [Hours/Day] * 366 [Days/Year]
>   = 6.6 MWHr/year.
>
> OK, that isn't 18MHr/year.  But 6.6MWHr is what the average Victorian
> household uses, so your consumption far bigger than normal.  Maybe you
> have lots of kids, or maybe a teenage daughter?
>
>
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