Okay, riddle me this, how many watts in a pound of coal?
Didn’t think so. That is BTUs, which can be only translated to Joules.
It’s you who are so far behind in even basic physics that you can’t grasp this concept.
As I said, power reactors are rated in Watts. But it is assumed to be continuous. which is, you got it, Joules over a given span of time.
I am not sure if you are ignorant and really don’t know, or are just being argumentative because you know you are wrong.
And to your electrical resistor analogy: wrong again. Yes, a resistor is rated in watts, but it’s assumed to be *continuous* just like a power reactor, so you can assume Joules. Even better though, most large power resistors actually have a time limit on dissipation capacity. Ie., energy. Get it yet?
Okay, riddle me this, how many watts in a pound of coal?
***I have looked at and measured power generation circuits in the lab and never once have I measured a lump of coal. Your analogy not only falls flat, but it’s from a completely different INDUSTRY. You said this applies to the power generation industry. Since when does the power generation industry deliver households lumps of coal?
As I said, power reactors are rated in Watts. But it is assumed to be continuous. which is, you got it, Joules over a given span of time.
***And yet, here you are pushing an example where the output was a PULSE. You’re the one who doesn’t know what’s going on here.
I am not sure if you are ignorant and really don’t know, or are just being argumentative because you know you are wrong.
***Perhaps you can show all of us, in your great magnanamity of spirit, just how a PULSE is CONTINUOUS OUTPUT POWER? No, I didn’t think so.
And to your electrical resistor analogy: wrong again. Yes, a resistor is rated in watts,
***And... uh... EXACTLY HOW was I wrong?
but it’s assumed to be *continuous* just like a power reactor,but it’s assumed to be *continuous* just like a power reactor, so you can assume Joules.
***What a bunch of horse manure. Electricians & EE’s don’t go around talking about how many Joules a resistor dissipates.
It’s you who are so far behind in even basic physics that you can’t grasp this concept can assume Joules.
***But you said that for the power generation industry, by using Watts it screams “scam”. You are so far off the beaten path of demonstrating your point that you won’t ever find your way back. Not that it would matter if you did.
Even better though, most large power resistors actually have a time limit on dissipation capacity. Ie., energy. Get it yet?
***Sounds a lot like you’re reaching, and that your original point no longer “screams” SCAM but more like it “whispers” it if you can do the conversion in your head when no one else in the industry does it when they measure resistors. That is, unless they’re looking at ESD damage and suddenly, you guessed it, we’re dealing with a PULSE rather than CONTINUOUS POWER. Head on back to your high school coal mining class, short pants.