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[–] captainlezbian 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

so you're saying we should use truck miles?

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