Thanks Terry for filling in the blanks to clear up that one. Pulling this (a bit) back on topic, I always thought kilowatt-hours were strange enough, but here (and in earlier posts) we have kilowatt-hours per year... mashing THREE time units (including second, of course) together!
This reminds me how it always drives me a little nuts when I get my monthly electric bill, which contains a "Usage History" section. Handy idea, but the units are average kWh used per DAY. I'm tempted to write the utility and say something like, "Thanks for the average. BTW, studies have shown that the average number of hours used per day hovers consistently around 24.0, so it's OK with me if you want to factor that out and just give me plain old watts..." Too much to hope for, I suppose. Bruce H. (...in SE Michigan, where Detroit Edison (DTE) probably has more important stuff to worry about right now anyway. :) Convenient that my power was down for 24 hours and 5 minutes, making it a snap to reset the clock on my kitchen stove...) Terry Simpson in USMA:26666 wrote: > Electricity consumption per capita (kilowatt-hours) > > http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/indic_177_1_1.html > > 24779 Iceland > 24422 Norway > 15620 Canada > 14994 Qatar > 14588 Finland > 14471 Sweden > 13995 Kuwait > 13050 Luxembourg > 12331 United States > 10725 United Arab Emirates > 9006 Australia > 8813 New Zealand > 8507 Bahrain > 7628 Japan . . . etc . . .
