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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]

      But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby

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      • reinei@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm but couldn’t we then also go even further and assume an idealized muscle car with an effective transmission to its wheels of 1:1 running at its optimal torque vs speed point and thus with a given speed of its wheels rotation for a given time?

        Aka convert energy into miles (traveled) or something (with the choice of motor and wheel diameter and everything else standardized ofc.)?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric

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      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        🦅

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

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