Web Standards Are a Mess: IEEE Publication Measures Battery in Watts

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A screenshot of a comment thread on a dark-themed forum/platform. User @Peterthethinker posted '1 hour ago': 'The web is an inaccessible mess of standards... Too many poindexter's.. To much FAAAANG. Needs more IEEE..' User @chupasaurus replied '55 minutes ago': '@Peterthethinker Today I read IEEE publication with battery capacity measured in Watts. There is no escape.' @Peterthethinker responds '24 minutes ago' with a shocked emoji face: 'wth..' and tags @chupasaurus. The thread humorously subverts the original poster's reverence for IEEE standards by revealing that even IEEE publications contain basic unit errors (battery capacity should be measured in Watt-hours or Amp-hours, not Watts)

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick 'We need more IEEE standards!' IEEE: *measures battery capacity in Watts* -- The standards body standardized getting the units wrong

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

'We need more IEEE standards!' IEEE: *measures battery capacity in Watts* -- The standards body standardized getting the units wrong
@xmakedtf 6mo

Watt-hours are totally better than mAh. Sometimes there is multiple batteries (usually in laptops) connected in series, which creates higher voltage, but same current, same capacity in mAh. But the energy stored is voltage*current capacity, which is the definition of watt-hours. Because of this, the capacity of laptop batteries usually written in watt-hours. Also some batteries have slightly higher or much lower voltages due to their chemistry, and comparing mAh ignores that as well.
1. @apBUS_amp_K 6mo
  
  I introduce to you a novel concept, a new miracle in engineering field, really. It's called Joule.
  
  @xmakedtf 6mo
  
  Also can be called watt-second
  
  @apBUS_amp_K 6mo
  
  truly cursed
2. @ne_bknn 6mo
  
  > the energy is voltage*current That would be power, not energy. Exactly watt. To get watt-hour (...energy), you have to, well, multiply by hour.
  
  @xmakedtf 6mo
  
  That's true, I know it, but explaining that would be too much unnecessary text, and to simplify everything, by current I meant current capacity, in Ah, since that's what you usually know about batteries
  
  @purplesyringa 6mo
  
  you literally don't need to explain it, you can jut use the correct word
  
  @purplesyringa 6mo
  
  there's enough misinformation already
  
  @xmakedtf 6mo
  
  Alright, changed the message
  
  @purplesyringa 6mo
  
  thanks!
3. @flex_ape 6mo
  
  Literally this, why at all we use mAh when watt hours are so much more convenient and easy to understand
  
  @SamsonovAnton 6mo
  
  Marketing. 😔
  
  @chupasaurus 6mo
  
  Because it is electric charge by definition, not amount of energy. Most of batteries have nearly constant voltages so it's a multiplier away from Wh
@xmakedtf 6mo

I think they meant watt hours, since you can't express the battery capacity in just watts
@hy60koshk 6mo

I think it could have been fukken legendary if Kazakhstan used hp*hours