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Like hogsheads per rod.
Those might be used eventually at some point in the future, but right now our life is dominated by the rotation of the earth, the movement of the earth around the sun, etc. So, other units that correspond to those natural events make sense.
But, I’m not advocating anything radical, just use the standard SI unit for energy instead of some awkward non-SI unit based on SI units where the only thing it has going for it is that it’s familiar.
You aren’t, I can tell because you advocate for kWh. And your denominator in that case wouldn’t be “per 3 days”.
And minutes, and seconds. Most of us use all of these.
No, it doesn’t. Joules are the unit that makes sense when talking about energy.
Do you get this upset about the world using km/h instead of m/s? How about hectares instead of a power of 3 of square meter?
Or electron volts in particle physics? Or calories in food?
People use these because the conversions are easier in the contexts where they’re discussed.