• fakeaustinfloyd
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      182 months ago

      The imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.

      • @captainlezbian
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        212 months ago

        We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

        • @[email protected]
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          152 months ago

          I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months 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

            • @reinei
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              22 months 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.)?

          • @captainlezbian
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            22 months ago

            I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric

      • @Telodzrum
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        92 months ago

        The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

          It’s a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

    • @Psythik
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      22 months ago

      You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.

    • @Valmond
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      12 months ago

      Do you know which comics is it?