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== About "Work" == | |||
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"It doesn't make much sense to calculate work with the much more common (at least, common in the real world) unit of kilowatt hours, because although the game runs more or less in real-time and the units are meant to be relatively realistic, 1 kW h is a lot of energy, and in fact so much so that you can't reasonably represent the value of a piece of coal that way." | |||
* 1 kWh = 3,6 MJ, so this is wrong, but i can't come up with a better way to write this | |||
Revision as of 09:12, 6 February 2018
Power, Work, Energy
I would find this easier, if just energy and power were use in this page. I found work somewhat unnecessary because we don't have to deal with forces (electrical or mechanical), which do the work.--Rk84 (talk) 15:42, 24 February 2014 (CET)
More units
If someone has time:
- area
- speed
- throughput
- items
- liquids
- volume
- items: stacks / chests
- liquids: pipes/tanks
About "Work"
This paragraph "It doesn't make much sense to calculate work with the much more common (at least, common in the real world) unit of kilowatt hours, because although the game runs more or less in real-time and the units are meant to be relatively realistic, 1 kW h is a lot of energy, and in fact so much so that you can't reasonably represent the value of a piece of coal that way."
- 1 kWh = 3,6 MJ, so this is wrong, but i can't come up with a better way to write this