There’s nothing wrong with kilowatts, it’s an SI unit. The problem is hour, which is 3600 seconds, and we have ancient Egyptians to blame for this, who divided the day into 24 hours despite having already developed base-10 numerical system.
Kilowatt per kilosecond, which is 1 megajoule, would work better.
Yeah Babylon was very clever but also looking at their math and writing makes it clear why they had to have a class of people to do their math and writing
I really don’t get the issue with kWh. Things are rated in W and we mostly care about the hours they’re powered on. If I wanna figure out how many kWh a PC that needs 300W used in 4 hours, I multiply 300*4. If I wanna know how many joules it used, I have to do 300*4*3600. Only one of those can be done in your head in 3 seconds.
There’s nothing wrong with kilowatts, it’s an SI unit. The problem is hour, which is 3600 seconds, and we have ancient Egyptians to blame for this, who divided the day into 24 hours despite having already developed base-10 numerical system.
Kilowatt per kilosecond, which is 1 megajoule, would work better.
Damn, I was convinced it was the Babylonians with their base-60 system.
That actually works great.
60 is cleanly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30.
10 is cleanly divisible by 1, 2, and 5.
I have no problem remembering what 1 is divisible by.
Yeah Babylon was very clever but also looking at their math and writing makes it clear why they had to have a class of people to do their math and writing
I really don’t get the issue with kWh. Things are rated in W and we mostly care about the hours they’re powered on. If I wanna figure out how many kWh a PC that needs 300W used in 4 hours, I multiply 300*4. If I wanna know how many joules it used, I have to do 300*4*3600. Only one of those can be done in your head in 3 seconds.
You gotta use an escape character, specifically a backslash ( \ ), when dealing with *s on lemmy.
Otherwise you end up with “stufflike this!”
When it could have been “stuff*like this*!”
ETA: Damn, you’re good. Fixed it before I even finished this post!