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I'm not happy about this as the first sentence: "The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of electrical and mechanical power." While true, it seems to limit the watt to only measuring electrical and mechanical power. Kendall-K1 (talk) 02:37, 25 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
@DePiep: What's the reason for the "lowercase title" template? We normally use sentence case for article titles and I don't see any good reason to make an exception in this case. Kendall-K1 (talk) 01:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
In English, the names of units start with a lower-case letter (even when the symbol for the unit begins with a capital letter)
@Kbrose: I earlier proposed removing the light bulb examples. No one objected, so I went ahead and removed them. Since apparently there is an objection, I'm going to re-state here what I said earlier:
I wonder if it's time to do away with the light bulb comparisons. You can't buy a 100 watt light bulb any more, so some time soon young people reading this article won't know what we're talking about. Worse, at least in the US, light bulbs are starting to appear on the shelves that are marked "100 watts" when they actually only consume 12 or so watts. Kendall-K1 (talk) 03:05, 16 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
I just reverted this: [1] We have two equations here. The first gave the relationship between energy and power, and the second substituted numbers into this relationship. The edit I reverted changed the second equation so that it talks about power instead of energy. I think it's clearer if the two equations both talk about the same thing. Kendall-K1 (talk) 12:59, 31 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Kendall-K1 deleted the following:
The Gravelines nuclear power plant in France became in 2010 the first power plant to ever deliver a cumulative petawatt-hour of electricity.[1][2]
The ostensible reason is was «Petawatt: this has nothing to do with petawatts of power; please discuss». I hasten to add that deletion of WP:RS goes against WP:PRESERVE. Cheers to all, XavierItzm (talk) 20:14, 22 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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The six-unit Gravelines nuclear power plant near Dunkerque in northern France has become the first nuclear plant in the world to deliver 1000 billion kilowatt-hours (one petawatt-hour) of electricity.
I am listing some Turkish power plants and the official database lists MWm as well as MWe. After a long search I found out that MWm means "megawatt mechanical" so I have now added and cited that and made a redirect MWm.
I guess it means the maximum kinetic energy of the spinning turbine. Is that right and if so where can I find a cite?
But I am confused why MWm is listed for solar PV farms on the official database http://lisans.epdk.org.tr/epvys-web/faces/pages/lisans/elektrikUretim/elektrikUretimOzetSorgula.xhtml (as you can see by selecting Tesis Türü : Güneş - meaning plant type solar)
Any idea what is the point of listing this for a power plant? Maybe previously mechanical energy was needed for spinning reserve https://www.erawa.com.au/electricity/wholesale-electricity-market/ancillary-services-parameters/spinning-reserve-margin-peak-and-off-peak-load-rejection-reserve-and-system-restart-cost_lr ? If so is "MWm" a useless measurement now big batteries can provide Ancillary Services?