• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    20 days 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
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      20 days 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

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        19 days 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.)?