Timeline for A machine consumes power or energy?
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| Sep 30, 2017 at 11:54 | answer | added | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 5:29 | comment | added | user57037 | Too many answers already. "Power consumption" actually does not make sense. Depending on what you actually mean, you can say "power demand" or "energy consumption" or "energy requirement" or "energy usage." But more context would help. | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 4:29 | answer | added | Neil_UK | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 2:02 | answer | added | user80875 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 1:50 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 0:10 | comment | added | DimP | Well, that's usually the kind of answers I get. Maybe we can agree that in general, it will depend on each scenario and context of the discussion. It seems that both make sense to people however. | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 0:03 | answer | added | JRaef | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:52 | answer | added | user136077 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:15 | answer | added | Transistor | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:07 | comment | added | Chu | Energy consumption must be qualified by specifying the time interval. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | D.A.S. | Energy cost is the preferred unit in Watt-hrs for average utilization for electricity or MPG, L/100km for gasoline or.... Power is preferred when peak work load is defined in kW, Hp, BTU or whatever industry it belongs with. It depends if you are referring to capacity or usage or cost or whatever is relevant. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:01 | comment | added | Iam Pyre | If your talking industry, I would go with "Power consumption". This could more easily translate to output, rate of work, etc., | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:00 | comment | added | user16324 | Context required. Both make sense. If the machine makes a car, you can talk about the "energy consumption" for making the car. You don't really care if it takes a lot of power and delivers a car a minute later, or if it uses very little power and takes all week. But if the machine runs continuously you want to know its power consumption. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:59 | comment | added | Wesley Lee | I'm probably not qualified to answer this, but I'd say it depends on context. If you are talking about a total amount of energy for a given amount of time, then energy. If you are talking about a rate of consumption for an unspecified amount of time, then power. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:59 | comment | added | user3528438 | Power in this case means electricity not energy consumption rate. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:55 | history | asked | DimP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |