On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Wookey wrote:<br>
> On 2008-11-10 15:40 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
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>> Even kWh is a meaningless term unless you give a time frame.<br>
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> No it's not - it's a measure of energy. It's what you buy power from<br>
> the power company in. 5kWh will run a 1kW device for 5hours , a 500W<br>
> device for 10 hours, a 10W device for 500 hours etc. It works for hot<br>
> water and electricity and eny other energy you wish to measure.<br>
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> Wookey<br>
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</div>For claiming the cost of operation of some device, energy usage is<br>
meaningless. You must give it in terms of power (energy use per second,<br>
energy user per month, energy use per billing period). You must specify<br>
a time frame.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Its funny how it was neither the kW/h nor the kW*h but the plain old kW that you were looking for ;-). The watt is 1 joule of energy per second.<br>