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the brag your appliances make before your electric bill calls their bluff
means The amount of electrical power something uses or produces, measured in watts.
from A 19th-century word built by tacking the noun-making suffix '-age' onto 'watt' — the unit named for James Watt, the Scottish engineer whose improvements to the steam engine made him the patron saint of measured power. The unit was officially adopted in his honor in the late 1800s, and 'wattage' followed naturally, the way 'mileage' follows 'mile.'
- named after
- James Watt, the steam engine improver
- the math
- volts times amps equals watts
- human output
- a hard-working cyclist sustains about 100 watts
- horse trade
- one horsepower equals 746 watts
- old standard
- the 60-watt bulb defined cozy for decades
for instance
itaipu dam — hydroelectric facility generating 14,000 mw between brazil and paraguay
typical us household — average home uses 10,500 watts of power consumption annually