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If we're going metric, why not go all the way and end up with joules?
by freeone3000 5y ago
If we're going metric, why not go all the way and end up with joules?
- foxyv 5y agoMostly because our time units are still kind of wonky. Unless we went to a metric time system, it's way more convenient to leave our denominator time unit for power generation in hours than to multiply by 3600 hours/second to get kilojoules.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoWe just need to get people to start measuring time in kilo/mega/gigaseconds /s
- foxyv 5y agoOr just adjust the second to 0.864 old-seconds so that there are 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour and 10 hours per day. But we can't manage to agree on DST/STD time so that isn't happening!
- ggm 5y agoPetajoules would work for me.
- Youden 5y agoA joule is just a Watt-second so a kilowatt-hour is already just a convenient number of joules.