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Out of curiosity, why do people use Watt-hours instead of Joules for this purpose?
by haberman 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why do people use Watt-hours instead of Joules for this purpose?
- dia80 14y agoWhich is more practical? A: "Hi, can you please supply us with 50MW for the next 12 hours?" B: "Hi, can you please supply us with 2.16Tj at a rate of 50MW?"
- kondro 14y agoIt would be much nicer to get 2.16Tj in a bucket.
- tomrod 14y agoTradition. Same reason we use centralized banks and sovereign currency instead of bit-coin and other independent currencies, or miles per gallon instead of gallons per mile.
- westicle 14y agoOr for that matter, kilometres per litre.
- barney54 14y agoJoules (or watts) is a measure of capacity. Electricity generating capacity, especially with intermittent sources like wind is almost meaningless. Who cares about capacity if the actual generation is zero. Watt-hours, Megawatt-hours, and terawatt-hours are used because that's the descriptive term of energy actually produced.