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What the fuck is a Fahrenheit? (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's never gonna be a universally good unit for energy. Calories work well for heat, watt hours for stored or metered electrical energy, even electron volts for certain quantum physics. Plus the actual SI standard of joules.