A power line between China and Laos has now carried more than 1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity since it began operation – a new high for the two countries.The 500-kilovolt link is China's first cross-border AC interconnection of its kind. It switched
      • btsax@reddthat.com
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        20 days ago

        Its also a really small unit of energy for a power line, it’s like “my car went a billion inches!”

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        20 days ago

        It’s recording power over time. From the article this is since April, but without that to bound it doesn’t really give the relative scale to compare it. It could be lower power over a long time or a lot of power over a short time.

        I’m also not really sure that’s impressive. It sounds like a lot because “billion” is big, but that’s around the amount of renewable energy my metro area uses in a year. Total use is around 10B.