Why are Watt Hours not Watts per Hour? Are they the same thing?

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Why are Watt Hours not Watts per Hour? Are they the same thing?

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Watt-hours are units of Watt times hour.

A Watt is a unit of “power” which is energy per time, commonly used to measure rate of energy use/flow. You multiply it by time (hour) to get the total amount of energy used in a period of time.

Watts per hour would be a rate of change of the rate of energy flow/use/etc.

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