Eli5:why is that something rated 1000w spends 1kWh after an hour instead of 3600kWh, since watt is by second?
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It will expend 1000 Wh = 1kWh but it will spend 3600 kWs = 3600 kilojoule (kJ) = 3.6 megajoules.
Joules and kWh are different scales of the same measurement. The first is useful to the guy designing the machine to not burn up. The other, to the guy billing people to use it.
It’s kind of like: Einstein says mass is equivalent to energy. If we wanted, we could measure the mass of that chocolate bar in (billions of billions of) the same unit as we measure it’s food energy in (calories). But we’d rather not.
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