Usually electric generation facilities or devices are described as what they can handle at their peak. I feel as if this vulgarization of units really makes it

Usually electric generation facilities or devices are described as what they can handle at their peak. I feel as if this vulgarization of units really makes it harder to understand the intangibility not of electrical demand which is also ephemeral by nature. Most of the time we see “watts” it really means “watt hours” which measures work. We’re used flattening rate-measurements by measuring instantaneous points like the speedometer on your car, e.g. if you are going 60 miles-per-hour, you can expect to travel 60 miles in on hour if you maintain that rate. However, A 60 watt appliance will consume that 60 watts over 1 hour of use, which is like saying we are going “60 miles” in the example above.