It’s in your electricity bill every month.
You get a comparison of electric vs natural gas flow in your energy bill? Wow!!
I think most people understand W vs kWh, at least on some level. They know things use different amounts of energy depending on what it’s doing (i.e. a microwave sitting idle vs actually warming things), but they may not be comfortable estimating kWh from watts.
But that’s only the first part of what OP talked about. The meat of the discussion was about energy stored in something like natural gas vs electrical energy. How exactly am I supposed to compare a gas furnace and electric AC vs an electric heat pump? Not only would I need to somehow convert therms (or whatever local unit you use for gas energy) to kWh, but I also need to understand efficiency of heat transfer for heat pumps, which will vary quite a bit based on the weather (much less effective in cold weather).
That’s complicated, and many HVAC professionals here don’t like heat pumps for whatever reason so they tend to think in terms of resistive heating vs gas heating, which is absolutely wrong.
rice@lemmy.org 4 days ago
“a quick visit to wikipedia” is a good example confirming what I said, majority of people are not willing to do that to learn any subject. 0.483% of humans are engineers, of that I’d say there are a small chunk that are near worthless and probably don’t even know these basics.