Equation 4 · The Fifteen-Point-Six-Terawatt Number Is Real Arithmetic Built on the Wrong Fleet Size
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for fleet size F across all nine combinations of the labor-force total L , the hours-worked bracket , and the duty-cycle-adjusted operating hours , produces a range from about 0.76 billion units (90 percent duty cycle, 1,600 hours worked) to about 1.88 billion units (50 percent duty cycle, 2,200 hours worked), with a representative central case — 70 percent duty cycle, 1,750 hours worked — landing at roughly 1.07 billion units. That is the identical nine-scenario grid this series’ opening entry already published, reproduced here from the same primary inputs checked fresh rather than a new range of its own. Every cell in that grid sits at least eight times below the post’s sixteen…
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for fleet size F across all nine combinations of the labor-force total L , the hours-worked bracket , and the duty-cycle-adjusted operating hours , produces a range from about 0.76 billion units (90 percent duty cycle, 1,600 hours worked) to about 1.88 billion units (50 percent duty cycle, 2,200 hours worked), with a representative central case — 70 percent duty cycle, 1,750 hours worked — landing at roughly 1.07 billion units. That is the identical nine-scenario grid this series’ opening entry already published, reproduced here from the same primary inputs checked fresh rather than a new range of its own. Every cell in that grid sits at least eight times below the post’s sixteen billion, several cells above twenty times below it — the same order-of-magnitude gap this series’ opening entry already established.
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