• fakeaustinfloyd
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    181 month 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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      211 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        151 month 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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          61 month 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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            21 month 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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          21 month ago

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

    • @Telodzrum
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      91 month ago

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