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Equation 4 · Part 2 · The Fifteen-Point-Six-Terawatt Number Is Real Arithmetic Built on the Wrong Fleet Size

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HwH_w
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What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

for fleet size F across all nine combinations of the labor-force total L , the hours-worked bracket HwH_w , and the duty-cycle-adjusted operating hours HrH_r , 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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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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