Energy capacity on Solar Collector and Wind Turbine

Pedriko
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Energy capacity on Solar Collector and Wind Turbine

Post by Pedriko »

Hi! Does anyone knows what that energy capacity on Solar Collector (1,5kW/h) and Wind Turbine (25,0kW/h) means?
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Re: Energy capacity on Solar Collector and Wind Turbine

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Exactly what it sais? oO
kW/h = kilo Watt per hour
1,5 kW/h means the solar collector generates 1500 Watt per hour.
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Re: Energy capacity on Solar Collector and Wind Turbine

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Hmmmm that might be what it is supposed to mean but if so it's pretty confusing.

kW (kilowatt) is already a measure of power (energy divided by time) so dividing it again by time (hours) actually gives you the acceleration of energy which is a really confusing concept :biggrin2:

It is possible that the developer meant to write kWh (kilowatt hour), which is a common unit for measuring electrical energy, rather than kW/h (kilowatts per hour). However this doesn't make a boatload of sense in this context either as a kilowatt hour is a "lump" of energy and not a measurement of power.

Real-world classifications for both wind turbines and solar modules are often defined in kW, which is a unit of power and representative of the electrical power that these devices can generate.

So my guess is that kW/h is either a typo, or a misunderstanding by whoever wrote the text, or a mistranslation from the original German, and should actually be just kW.
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