• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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        24 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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          23 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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            23 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.)?