[Novalug] Green Computing
JG
unician at speakeasy.net
Fri Feb 20 19:14:54 EST 2009
Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> I'm going to walk away from the discussion of electricity with
> the idea that watts is what I really care about measuring. And,
> of course, Kilowatts per hour (Kwr?) which matches up to our
> electricity bill so I can multiply Kwr used times a base rate to
> find out how much money each of my electrical devices is costing me.
Slight correction: Watts (and kilowatts) measure power, the rate at
which you're using energy, so kilowatts times hours (kW hours), not
kilowatts per hour, measure the total energy used, and matches your
electricity bill.
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