Dangerous_beans, 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek one ton is 1000kg, conversion of energy to mass at rest is MC^2, so that's like 90 petajoules? Not, that can't be right, must be a weird imperial unit

allpoints, 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek @TechConnectify freedom units baby!

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago

@allpoints @TechConnectify cool. Care to translate for the rest of us ?

TechConnectify, 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek @allpoints
1 ton = 12,000 BTU/hr = 3.5kW

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago

@TechConnectify @allpoints brilliant. That makes sense to my brain. I can picture how big that is.

Excellent video btw.

Out of curiosity, are you able to tell us how much a kWh of electricity costs where you are ?

TechConnectify, 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek @allpoints It's hard for me to give a concrete number since I'm on a real-time hourly plan (which, funnily enough, went negative several times today) but for those on fixed-rates with ComEd it's somewhere between $0.10 and $0.12/kWh.

Not sure what the flat rate is at this point, but I come out ahead every month by shifting my car charging to the middle of the night (and air conditioning, too, in the summer).

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago

@TechConnectify @allpoints that's not too bad. Here time of use tariffs are not common yet, and the rate is over 50c kWh. :(