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A kilowatt-hour is essentially 3600000 joules but more confusing (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] first_ad4972 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I mean by "confusing" is that it's harder to estimate. A joule is a newton multiplied by a meter, which is essentially the work you do when you lift an apple (which experiences around 1 newton of gravity) from the ground to a table (which is around 1 meter). So using megajoules should be more intuitive compared to kilowatt-hours. What makes kilowatt-hour easier to the layman to understand is that electric companies charge by kilowatt-hours instead of megajoules.