He then seems to think that EE’s and other practitioners are unaware of the difference between power and energy, and would never speak of the energy dissipated in a resistor operating over some time period.
***Wait, whut? EE’s talk about a resistor operating for YEARS. Is that how long your supposed “pulse” lasts? Geez, you’re a loon.
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“***Wait, whut? EE’s talk about a resistor operating for YEARS. Is that how long your supposed “pulse” lasts? Geez, you’re a loon.”
Oy! That pretty much explains his knowledge failure, right there in that one sentence.
I gave you an example: motor braking. A power resistor has to dissipate the total mechanical energy of a system during breaking operations. We don’t measure the mechanical system’s stored energy in watts, because watts isn’t energy. Nope, instead, we use this other unit, called the Joule, which describes energy.