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I'd blame this on my utter lack of math skills, but I think that the ignorance that cause this is an error in thinking Megawatts are the same as mWh.  And I seriously underestimated the potential as a result :)

Did I mention the report I cited excluded offshore potential, and was comissioned by the Michigan department of Commerce, curious the correllation between demand and supply here.  It's almost as thought they are suggesting that wind can produce all of Michigan's power needs.......

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by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Mar 9th, 2006 at 08:31:29 PM EST
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I think that the ignorance that cause this is an error in thinking Megawatts are the same as mWh

Yes, MW is a unit of the rate of energy production, MWh is the amount of energy produced (e.g. 1 MWh is the energy produced in one hour at a rate of 1 MW). Nevermind - but for future reference, I also note that mWh would not be Megawatt:

1 mWh = 1 milliwatt-hour = 0.000,001 kWh
1 Wh = 1 Watt-hour = 0.001 kWh
1 kWh = 1 kilowatt-hour
1 MWh = 1 Megawatt-hour = 1,000 kWh
1 GWh = 1 Gigawatt-hour = 1,000,000 kWh
1 TWh = 1 Terawatt-hour = 1,000,000,000 kWh

(Sorry for the pedantry, but I am both a chronical nitpicker and an ex-physicist.)

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by DoDo on Fri Mar 10th, 2006 at 04:21:55 AM EST
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