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Comment Re:Answer, in brief: (Score 1) 556

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.

Comment Re:Answer, in brief: (Score 1) 556

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.

Comment Re:Answer, in brief: (Score 2) 556

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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