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Originally Posted by scc
Shouldn't those two be the other way around? From the way it stands it looks like if I cast Draw Power on, lets say a flywheel because I don't think batteries can be the target of that spell, that was storing 360 kW I would get 1 FP for every second I maintained the spell, ok, it costs 1 to maintain so I'd need a 720 kW flywheel to have a reason to maintain it, but still.
Now if I find a power line that supplies 360kWs, or 360 kW a second I can only draw one point per casting
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No. Just no. That's completely contrary to the physics.
A power line does not supply kWs; it supplies kW. kWs is not "kW a second," it's "kW sustained over a time of a second" or "kw times seconds." If it were "kW a second" the notation would be "kW/s." One is multiplying; the other is dividing.
And talking about "kW a second" is nonsense in this context. The kW is not a unit of energy; it's a unit of power. The unit of energy is the kJ (or kWs). A power line that supplies 360 kW is supplying 360 kJ a second; the "a second" is already there, built into the "kW." (That is, 360 kJ/s = 360 kWs/s = 360 kW.)
Bill Stoddard