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by Faaak 827 days ago
Maybe they meant "gigawatt-hours per day"
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Gigawatt hours per day is just gigawatt hours per 24 hours, so just gigawatts but divided.
Which gives you power again, not work. "gigawatt-hours per day" = gigawatt/24
If you consider that watt hours is just a convenience unit for (3600) joules, then “1 gigawatt hour each day” correctly should be “3600 GJ/day” which works.
Which is a reasonable metric.
Expressed in an unreasonable way.