Bill Gates on 60 Minutes just now.

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26. "A gigawatt for a system with 20-30% capacity utilization is not equivalent to a gigawatt...

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...of a plant that operates at 90%-100% capacity." < - Edited to include this and the quote marks

I agree, a point I made in my #24 above in double (());s

p. 129 - Meanwhile, renewable energy capacity in China continues to grow at a substantially higher rate. Total installed renewable capacity increased by about nine percent from 2018 to 2019, going from 695 GW to 759 GW; wind capacity expanding from 185 GW in 2018 to 210 GW in 2019, and solar capacity from 175 GW in 2018 to 205 GW in 2019. 407 ((yes yes, I know, a GW of solar or wind capacity is nowhere near the equivalent of nuclear capacity, given the difference of capacity factors, and the reliability (intermittency) issues. Also, since solar and wind combined is 415 GW in 2019, and total renewable is 759 GW, that means there is 344 GW of other renewable which is probably mostly hydro)).

"The unit of energy is the joule, sometimes watt-hour, not the watt."

Nobody said it was.