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To: Mycroft Holmes
kilowatt hours measures electricity, E-Cat produces heat.
21 posted on 11/15/2011 4:13:22 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: faucetman
kilowatt hours measures electricity, E-Cat produces heat.
Actually, Watt is a unit of power, regardless of the source of that power.
24 posted on 11/15/2011 4:30:11 AM PST by Johnny B.
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To: faucetman

No, KWh is a measure of energy period, electricity is just one form of that energy. Heat energy can also be expressed as KWh. Where do you think the electrical energy of a 100W incandescent bulb goes? After an hour, it has heated the room by 1KWh expressed as the temperature rise times the volume of the particular material.


25 posted on 11/15/2011 4:41:03 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: faucetman
kilowatt hours measures electricity, E-Cat produces heat.
A "watt" is a unit of work per unit time, like "horsepower." 745.7 watts = 1 horsepower.

a watt-hour is a unit of energy, or work. Energy as work can be very readily converted into energy as heat, for example by use of a brake. Converting energy as heat into energy as work, OTOH, is more difficult. That requires an engine such as a steam engine - and the laws of thermodynamics explain some of the inefficiency in that conversion. Electric energy is work energy because it requires work to turn a generator to produce electric energy, and in principle you can make an electric motor with zero loss using superconductors.


35 posted on 11/15/2011 5:32:52 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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