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Remove the 24 h/day, and then you can use the actual unit W instead of the frankenunit W•h/day
by cwillu 1y ago
Remove the 24 h/day, and then you can use the actual unit W instead of the frankenunit W•h/day
- abetusk 1y agoI sort of agree with you but watts are an instantaneous measurement and is essentially a derivative. `Wh/day` is effectively doing the integration and giving a term for "energy usage per day", which I find much easier to think about. If this were a simulation or a science article, then yes, don't use frankenunits, but the back-of-the-envelope calculation is meant to build intuition.
- cwillu 1y ago> effectively doing the integration It's doing nothing of the kind, because again, it's the same dimensional unit. It's exactly like describing a distance as a speed per day or a distance as acres per mile: both technically work, but it's annoying to do anything with the resulting value except the one specific analogy with.