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"If California’s 6,437 kilometers of canals were covered with solar panels, an estimated 63 billion gallons of water might be conserved while producing 13 gigatonnes of power – enough to power the whole city of Los Angeles from January to early October."
11:28 PM - Aug 01, 2023
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Steve Nelson
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In response to Sassy Musing.
I don’t think gigaton would be the right unit to express an amount of power?
01:31 AM - Aug 02, 2023
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Sassy Musing
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Here's what I found: "A gigatonne is 1,000,000,000 tonnes, and is often used when discussing human carbon dioxide emissions."
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09:14 PM - Aug 02, 2023
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Steve Nelson
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Yes, I wasn’t critiquing you. The writer must have confused the impact the amount of power potentially produced could have on air conditioning? Maybe?
12:48 AM - Aug 03, 2023
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In response to Steve Nelson.
I don't know. I wonder if it's the amount of carbon emissions that wouldn't be going into the air? I agree that it's confusing the way they worded it.
11:28 PM - Aug 03, 2023
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