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gertrunde • yesterday at 8:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Sort of neither?

It's 30kW for one hour.

(Or 1.25kW for 24 hours, or however you prefer).

[Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour]


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numpad0 • yesterday at 10:19 PM

It's like you had a faucet with cross section of 2 square inches, and 15 seconds with that faucet wide open would fill a jug. That jug holds 30 squareinches-seconds of water.

You may then use that water over the course of a day. That's 30 sqin-sec per day. That is not 30 square inches for a whole day. It's second per day.

Or watt hour per week or whatever.

Yes, it can be described like 0.00034722 sqin/day, and that corresponds to no physical object and that would be largely useless.

Why not Joules or Liters? Because that's complicated for anything electrical.

OJFord • yesterday at 8:14 PM

Pretty sure GP understands that, their point being you can't just wave away 'per unit time' when talking about it relative to generation, it matters.

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