“No it’s not. Just the water heater alone draws more.”
That’s true but the water heater doesn’t run all the time. The 1.5KW is an average consumption, which is roughly what an household uses. Take a look at your electric bill and you’ll see that that’s close to what you use. Obviously when you have your TV on, and the fridge is running and you’re drying your hair all at the same time, your peak usage will be much more, but that doesn’t last that long. At night when you’re asleep you don’t use much at all.
The unit is kilowatt hours. That’s what is on my electric bill.
It’s always bad when they use the wrong units.
My house uses about 25-30 KW a day. And I have gas hot water and heat.
The 1.5KW is an average consumption, which is roughly what an household uses.
My daily electric usage varies, by season and by severity of any particular month, between 0.7 and 3.75 KWH/hour over any particular month.
I KNOW this, because our power co-op has online-accessible charts of both monthly & daily consumption & cost; as well as .pdf copies of monthly bills going back at least 10 years.
Is that what this is talking about? 1,5KW continuous output; and store for peaks? IOW, DC and a huge battery bank?
OR is this THERMAL Kilowatts, as in BTU/hour or calorie-seconds? If so, then the 3.3 KW amounts to about 4.4 horsepower.
This seemed to be a big confusion at first with the e-cat numbers, when doc Whatshisface was talking of building a “1 megawatt” demonstration plant. That amounted to 1,340 HP worth of steam; or 3,415,179 BTH/hour...if it had lived up to billing.