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On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:10:49 -0700, john larkin
<jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 16:44:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
><tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 04/07/2024 15:33, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On 4/07/2024 11:16 pm, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:10:41 -0000 (UTC), RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4 Jul 2024 at 10:58:07 BST, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/07/2024 10:06, alan_m wrote:
>>>>>>> Another half truth by the industry. It's only cheaper when it works 
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> if you ignore the backup required for when it doesn't and the extra
>>>>>>> infrastructure costs required to distribute it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It isn't even cheaper then.
>>>>>> Some of us have run the numbers...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Care to share ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>> Per gigawatt a wind turbine is cheaper than a nuclear power station but
>>>>>> that ignores
>>>>>> - the shorter lifetime of the windmill
>>>>>> - the capacity factor of the windmill
>>>>>> - the massive maintenance cost associated with a windmill.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I find it hard to believe that the revenue costs (per unit of 
>>>>> electricity) of
>>>>> a wind turbine exceeds those of nuclear.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "unit of electricity" ?
>>> 
>>> Kilowatt.hours and MegaWatt.hours seem to be popular. Alan m doesn't 
>>> seem to be all that technical.
>>> 
>>
>>THE Unit is defined as a KWh. but being an asshole, you wouldn't know that
>
>kWh is correct. Little k is kilo; big K is Kelvins.
>
>Units named after people are capitalized. Like Watt.

No. Unit names are treated like ordinary nouns and are only
capitalized where orthographically necessary. The symbols for units
named after people are always capitalized.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-EN.pdf

Section 5 explains all.