Why do power companies measure your usage in kilowatt hours rather

Rounding up is profitable.

Post more frog girl pics please. I watch this show a lot and have a body pillow...

>>60718444
Cute frogposter.

>>60718480
die weeb

>>60718444
because devices state watt and people are retarded and would get confused

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>>60718444
Any normie who knows what a watt is will be able to get his head around what a kilowatt-hour means. He'll also be able to grasp things like how using 100 watts for 10 hours is one kilowatt-hour.

Talk to him about joules and you'll just get a blank stare. Even if he knew that a joule is a watt-second, people don't think of their electricity usage at timescales as short as a second. Hours is a better fit for the chunks of time people normally use electricity in.

>>60718553
Understanding what a kilowatt hour is not easier than understanding what a joule is. The retarded people you speak of have no idea what a kilowatt hour is and just pay whatever the amount on the bill says without thinking about it.

>>60718602
>>Understanding what a kilowatt hour is not easier than understanding what a joule is.
It's easier to deal with "1,000 of something per hour" than "3600 of something per hour"

>>60718444
Wow, so instead of 1000kWh on my power bill it'll be 3600000000J! Great idea retard. While we're at it, why don't we measure hard drive sizes in bytes too. Fucking retards.

>>60718661
>3600000000J
AKA 3.6 Terajoules.
>Using metric prefixes is okay for bytes but not joules

>>60718444
Because it makes figuring out power consumption a lot easier.
>ampsXvolts=wattage
>gives decently round numbers

>>60718694
Then lets measure hard drives in terabits because bits are "straight forward"

>>60718444
Define "straight forward"

>>60718628
An hour has 3600 seconds. Do you understand yet?

>>60718743
that would make way more sense because a byte isn't actually a standardized size. i don't think there are many systems where 1 byte != 8 bits around anymore though

>>60718743
Bits aren't straight forward because file systems don't allocate on a per bit level, it would make no sense to do that.
>>60718769
Less conversion is required to get the straight amount amount.

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>>60718480
>frog fetish
>body pillow
Cmon man

>>60718553
Nope. The normies I've asked all think kilowatt-hour means a kilowatt per hour. It's not easier for them and is annoying for us. It's just stupid all around.

Joules sounds too much like Jews, and then the customers would realize who they're really dealing with.

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>>60718480
this is my desktop background

>>60718911
Every day i hate anime more and more

>>60718444
>Anime
Hi.
Go to hell.

>>60721283
>mad about anime on an anime imageboard

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>>60718480
leave this board and never come back

>>60718982
nice blog