Video: Solar-powered night garden fills Jerusalem with tranquility, world peace soon to follow
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Jul 13th 2009 6:19AM
posted Jul 13th 2009 6:19AM
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haha, but really, Watts per hour..? Come on..... a Watt is a joule per second.
fair play actually, power is charged in units of kW/h. sorry :D
It'll probably be blown up by Thursday.
I was just about to say the same thing :) . If it's Watts, it's Watts. Not "every hour" (or second, or minute).
As for power, that is measured in watt-hours (which is "watt*hour", not "watt/hour" as most people seem to believe). So this power plant puts out 720W (power), and can supply "720 watt-hour per hour" (energy).
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Confusion_of_watts_and_watt-hours
To be fair, this confusion comes from the source. I don't think that's really an excuse though - any writer for a technology blog should at least be familiar with the simplest units of electricity, which are after all covered in basic school science classes...
According to the source the garden uses 1300W, again 'per hour' (ho hum) which suggests to me that it can only run for half as long as daylight. Also, the 720W from the panels seems quite high - is this an average throughout the day or peak capacity in full sunlight? Etc.
(Basically the numbers should probably have been left out of this piece altogether because they're incomprehensible and certainly wrong in at least one if not several ways. Or emailing the source for clarification might be interesting.)
If art can lead to peace in the Middle East then may I respectfully request that everybody start ARTING IT UP IN HERE ALREADY PLEASE?????
I was beaten to the punch but this isnt the first time i've seen engadget use bogus power units. Apart from being picky, I actually want to know how much power the panels produce. And just to clarify, although I'm sure the wikipedia article has it, the units you see on your electricity bill are units of energy (kW*hr) and W are a unit of power. kW/hr would be a rate of change of power, which isnt particularly interesting except to the people that run the power grids.
maybe they are carnivorous flowers that will be planted around Israeli nightclubs and sabarros that eat those Palestinian children with bombs strapped to them
Watts Jerusalem?
Bit political and reactionary of me, but I pressed 'report comment' because it's a damn techblog where we are trying to have fun and that kind of trolling humor will only mess it all up.
Report button on the Dr Zeus remark I mean.
It's the military occupation, stupid.
Israel's military has ruled the West Bank with an iron fist since 1967. And for the last 40 years, Palestinians have been losing their privately owned lands to Jewish colonies while roadblocks and ghettos and walls were being erected to suffocate an already oppressed population.
Perhaps if Israel treated the Palestinians better and ended the occupation we wouldn't be in this mess.
But, Engadget readers know a half-assed truth. I'm starting to firmly believe that most Engagdet readers are clueless 16 year old nerds.
I see dror (israeli sounding nick incidentally) only made 2 comments on engadget, both about israel, he actually sits watching engadget to wait for anything related to the freaking middle east, how goddamn sad.