The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.
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austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 2 months agoThe imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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
reinei@lemmy.world 2 months 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.)?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
🦅