▲ 637 ▼ Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in (www.newscientist.com) submitted 2 years ago by throwaway389430@lemmy.cafe to c/news@lemmy.world 344 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah electricity is weird because Americans use metric for it. And it’s that way because metric predates it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 1 point 2 years ago Fun fact: While metric predates our full understanding of electricity, our understanding of electricity played a key role in the definition of the SI units. As I understand it, the reason the SI unit for mass is kg not g - making it an outlier to my mind - is so that electical engineers could keep volts and amperes as convenient numbers. Long read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07306 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 1 point 2 years ago Fun fact: While metric predates our full understanding of electricity, our understanding of electricity played a key role in the definition of the SI units. As I understand it, the reason the SI unit for mass is kg not g - making it an outlier to my mind - is so that electical engineers could keep volts and amperes as convenient numbers. Long read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07306 permalink fedilink source parent