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254 comments on Due Diligence: A reader's response to Khosla

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Engineer-Poet on August 13, 2006 - 3:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Um, no.  "Watts per hour" is as meaningless as "horsepower per hour" (outside some esoteric things mostly suitable for physics education).  There's watts and watt-hours; if the sentence wouldn't make sense if you substituted "horsepower" for "watts", you're almost certainly mis-using the term.
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LJR on August 13, 2006 - 8:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
All right, already.  884 BTU per mile.  Watts suck.
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wimbi on August 16, 2006 - 7:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
EP.  Many thanks for all your good work, not just this piece but all the great things you have on your ergosphere.  

I think a lot of people get self-confused when they get into the habit of abbreviating kilowatt-hrs to kilowatts, as in "My electric bill showed only 213 kilowatts last month". From there  to kilowatts per hour is a swift slide down the steep slippery slope.

BTW, I have finally got a thin stream of  vital fluids flowing again toward completion of my 1kW home power stirling engine and shall give a full report asap.  The military industrial vampire had sucked it dry for an entire year (goddamit).

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Engineer-Poet on August 16, 2006 - 9:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I'm looking forward to reading about it.
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