Fun fact, they short changed the horse:
Over a short period of time, they calculate, a horse can exert up to 14.9 horsepower.
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Wasn't horse power intended to represent the average energy output of a horse over a working day, rather than a brief maximum?
Yes, it was.
How much do you weigh? As much as 11 stones and 2 pebbles.
How far is that? 2 feet and 5 thumbs.
How fast are we going? About 6 knots in a rope that's hanging overboard.
It does make me laugh sometimes sorry. But the real problem is not the base units.. It's the multiplication factor.
I agree that most of the imperial system sucks, but knots (and by extention nautical miles) have a good reason for being used everywhere when navigating long distances around the globe because both are based on the way coordinates work.
My electric vehicle, when set to imperial, will display charging speed in horsepower.
Apparently a wall outlet can provide 3.2 horsepower.
Checks out, that's 2,610 watts, or about a 20A circuit at 120V.
What 😂
Giving me horsepower for the motor output instead of kilowatts kind of makes sense, but it changes everywhere.
The battery just displays as a percentage, otherwise it might tell me the energy remaining in horsepower hours.
That's 149KW (200hp) on that tiny car? That sounds like a hoot to drive
Ironic.
The American truck complaining that the EU is too regulated, while in the US something as simple as headlights are so overregulated they blind people while driving.
In the EU the headlights simply aim their lights away from incoming traffic automatically, which was a crime in the US until like last year.
In the EU the headlights simply aim their lights away from incoming traffic automatically, which was a crime in the US until like last year.
That only works like half the times at best. I'm still constantly getting my eyes lasered by big ass SUVs while driving at night. Not even counting the people that have misadjusted headlights.
Which cars do these now in the US?
1 Nm/s = 1 watt. It's a measure of power, not force
So is horsepower, whats your point?
The meme calls it a force
Ah, thats true, didn`t read the meme properly the first time.
sorry pocket reply
Ok, i'm gonna be that guy.
Newton meters (Nm) is a measure of torque.
While horse power (HP) is a measure of engine power.
You obviously cannot convert one into the other because they mean different things.
Also, when EVs eventually become the mayority, the kilowatt (kW) is gonna take over as the new standard for measuring engine power.
N*m/s, not Nm. That's energy in joules. Still not power (J/s, which can convert to HP) though...
I think that's the joke: Americans don't care about efficency, only power.
Thing is, one horse tops out at about 15 horsepower of force.
15 ANSI horses, or 15 ISO horses?
It's a waste to make a 500hp truck when you could make two 250hp trucks instead
Op truck because one horse is up to 15hp. That truck would be 7500hp 💀
I made this as a total shitpost but I'm loving the informative comments. Godwin's law at its finest.
congress should introduce all bills originally as shitposts
Bah! Most people have never even seen a horse. I never would have, had we not been dragged to see the pervert horse ballet when it came to town.
... what?
A fellow PHB enjoyer, I see!
See! This freak gets it!
