• @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