Congratulation For Marriege

If you give me one euro for every time I run into someone who confuses it with another unit of measurement - someone who gets paid to deal with it and write about it - do a lot of beautiful expenses, and maybe organize a basic physics course for journalists and advertisers.

The last case on which the eye fell m'è article was very heartfelt but not very accurate, unfortunately the poster (29.1. '11, P.. 16), signed by Nicola Cipolla. Inside, even at the beginning of an article is not without interest to the difficulties and hopes the use of solar energy in Italy, provides some data on increasing the installed PV capacity.

and to clarify the ideas about power , explains that "just remember that 1,000 MW of renewable energy equivalent to 600 thousand toe (tons oil equivalent).

Time:

• except that the symbol of the MW and MW, and Mw not (but this could be a problem purely typographic)
• except that the MW is a unit of power and energy (but this could be one way to express sloppy, if not for what comes next )
• except that renewable energy is no different, as a physical quantity, the energy obtained by burning the carcass of a dinosaur or the Mona Lisa (but not the first time I meet such distinctions socks), except that
• "equivalent" is a term more ambiguous, especially when you are doing accounts precise numbers to hand (it is equal to? has the same impact? has the same cost? ...);
• to parte che la conversione tra tep e altre grandezze fisiche non è universale, ma diversa a seconda di come decide di procedere l'ente o la società che calcola la conversione, e cioè a seconda del fattore di efficienza adottato per la trasformazione tra energia termica e energia elettrica;

a parte tutto questo, il watt è un'unità di misura della potenza, mentre il tep è un'unità di energia, e   la potenza e l'energia sono due grandezze fisiche diverse . Non è possibile confrontarle. Sarebbe come dire che la velocità di una certa automobile è equivalente alla distanza tra Roma e Firenze. Se proprio si vuole fare un discorso del genere, bisogna parlare time somewhere (on this machine you can go from Rome to Florence in two hours ...").

That said, he meant that article? Was he implying somewhere "... year" or "day" or something?
'm genuinely puzzled.

using the latest conversion factor adopted by ' Authority for Electricity and Gas , ie 1 kWh = 0.187 × 10 -3 toe (one of the several factors already mentioned only in this single document of that single authority), we find that 600,000 toe amounted to about 3200 GWh. Then amounted to 1000 MW (the power of which we spoke in the article) paid for 3200 hours, or about 133 days. And then? Nicola, what you meant?