That tends to happen with age and real-world experience. I actually started off from the other direction. Was a Republican, realized they just a full of shit as the Democrats, and became a Libertarian (when I also realized that's what I really was the whole time). I have no love for the Tea Party, but sympathy for some of their arguments.
The unit is defined as coulombs per second. But you always have to divide by time to convert between power and energy units. If you think amps have anything to do with time, you don't understand them.
This is identical to the relationship between velocity (power) and distance traveled (energy). Velocity is an instantaneous measurement, and has nothing to do with time; yet is measured in meters per second.
Say for example, you have a car battery rated as 500W
False premise. Batteries are not rated in W, they are rated in Wh. They have a roughly fixed amount of stored potential energy.
This means the battery can sustain 500W of power over a very short period of time.
Also false. Batteries are also rated in amps, for the safe amount that can be drawn off them. Given the battery voltage you can obviously convert that to watts, but it still doesn't mean what you think it does. That would be how much it can sustain until the battery has gone flat, not a hypothetical "very short period of time."
Generators, solar cells, etc.; are rated in W, because they have roughly a fixed amount of power they can generate continuously. As such, this guy's (probably imaginary) reactor would also be rated in W. You could rate the fuel in joules or kWh, much like you could rate a barrel of diesel fuel in the same manner.
A joule is the total energy, the amount of work done. Divide that by seconds, and you get Watts, which is an instantaneous measurement, and has NO TIME COMPONENT!
W=V*A Volts have nothing to do with time. Amps have nothing to do with time. WHY THE FUCK would watts have anything to do with time?
Yes, PLEASE, retake primary school physics. Perhaps then you would not be so persistent at proving to the world how poorly you understand simple concepts.
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I'll gladly demonize those that trample on the constitution they swore to uphold, liberal and conservative alike. They're equally guilty.
That tends to happen with age and real-world experience. I actually started off from the other direction. Was a Republican, realized they just a full of shit as the Democrats, and became a Libertarian (when I also realized that's what I really was the whole time). I have no love for the Tea Party, but sympathy for some of their arguments.
Echo chambers often look like agreement to those with a distorted worldview. Do you self-identify as a whiny liberal?
...wasn't disappointed.
Have an SLA? ...I didn't think so. You're SOL.
More like Daft Communications Bill.
Is there an echo in here?
Funny thing is, democrats are traditionally the pro-war party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Q8UvJ1wvk
Science funding goes up under republicans, and down under Democrats.
Enviropig
Ok, now you're just fucking with us...
googles enviropig... I'll be damned!
Your personal experience is but a single data point...
The unit is defined as coulombs per second. But you always have to divide by time to convert between power and energy units. If you think amps have anything to do with time, you don't understand them.
This is identical to the relationship between velocity (power) and distance traveled (energy). Velocity is an instantaneous measurement, and has nothing to do with time; yet is measured in meters per second.
Say for example, you have a car battery rated as 500W
False premise. Batteries are not rated in W, they are rated in Wh. They have a roughly fixed amount of stored potential energy.
This means the battery can sustain 500W of power over a very short period of time.
Also false. Batteries are also rated in amps, for the safe amount that can be drawn off them. Given the battery voltage you can obviously convert that to watts, but it still doesn't mean what you think it does. That would be how much it can sustain until the battery has gone flat, not a hypothetical "very short period of time."
Generators, solar cells, etc.; are rated in W, because they have roughly a fixed amount of power they can generate continuously. As such, this guy's (probably imaginary) reactor would also be rated in W. You could rate the fuel in joules or kWh, much like you could rate a barrel of diesel fuel in the same manner.
A joule is the total energy, the amount of work done. Divide that by seconds, and you get Watts, which is an instantaneous measurement, and has NO TIME COMPONENT!
W=V*A
Volts have nothing to do with time. Amps have nothing to do with time. WHY THE FUCK would watts have anything to do with time?
Yes, PLEASE, retake primary school physics. Perhaps then you would not be so persistent at proving to the world how poorly you understand simple concepts.
No, you are incorrect.
Yeah, but besides THAT, it sounds like a good idea!
Don't you mean a hyperspace bypass?
So still zero?
Australia
You must be a fry cook.
They still do that. You save $20/mo on individual plans and $40/mo on family plans if you bring your own phone.
A loop where time becomes.
Schrödinger's Han Solo?
Or would that be Han Duo?
My rocks like it when I polish them.
Except for when it is, then no one expects it.