Talk:Electric power
From Academic Kids
In most places in this article we're talking about electric ENERGY, not electric power. Energy is what electric companies sell, while "power" has identical meaning to "flow rate of energy." If it was water, would we talk about the supply of water, or the supply of "flow?" Watts are the flow rate, JOULES are what is flowing. For so many years we've been wrongly saying "Electric Power companies" rather than "Electric energy companies" that now the correct terminology sounds weird, while the wrong words sound safe and normal.
- I agree with you up to a point. Power Companies sell both power and energy. A typical two part tariff has prices for both kWh (energy) and kW (rate at which energy is used). Tiles 07:44, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
