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[-] allywilson@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

[-] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago

The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

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

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

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.)?

[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

so you're saying we should use truck miles?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

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