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That's not always exactly the same thing: kW is more "instant power" whereas kW.h/h is "average power".

You can achieve 10 kW.h/h with 10 kW during one hour, or 600 kW during one minute and then 0 kW during the following 59 minutes...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 08:31:45 AM EST
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Well, he called it power, not average power. And the relevant period was not an hour.

And average power should still be expressed in kW.

Anyway, I know you're trying to catch me ;-)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 09:50:00 AM EST
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I don't think this is true.  Reciprocal units represent derivatives (instantaneous), powers represent integrals: All units are integral operators.

If one wants to denote average power over some time frame, one should specifically say so.  Also, different kernels (weighting functions) result in different output - the naive 'sum of previous n values/n' rectangle filter is very lumpy in frequency space (sinc function), instead it's better to use something monotonic like the exponential weighting function (each average is a convex combination of the current value and the previous average).

(The thing about nitpicks is that there is always someone more pedantical than you :)

by njh on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:03:13 PM EST
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