Comment on Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know. | Technology Connections
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Power = Energy ÷ time, and conversely, Energy = Power × time. Even though in English, people use the two colloquially.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
So what is power/time? (ie:watt-hour)
Walop@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Notice the absence of division. It’s not watts per hour, but watt(s times)hours. So power multiplied by time which is energy. Just like the video explains.
Watts are analogous to velocity, so if you were to divide watts by time, the result would be the increase of power i.e. acceleration of energy consumption.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 week ago
I think @Ulrich@feddit.org heard “energy is power over time”, which is correct, but in the duration meaning of “over”, not the division one. English is confusing sometimes!