Units of storage are Joule or Watt-seconds

[Decker]

A battery's storage should be expressed in kJ not kW ... the storage is watts across time time... like laptop batteries are millwatt-hours.
don't worry about scaling it; just label it with J not W. I know it's not a full second that the power's used in... like the blip for power for a furnace when it grabs a new block is 2kW (for gold) and htat's just subtracted from the tottal watrts. Not sure how often the timer ticks internally for like machines that are 5W per tick.

[Zothen]

Actually the proper value of stored power would rather be ampere hours (Ah), not kJ.
But its a game, so whatever suits the game mechanics.

[Hardly]

at the moment I believe storage numbers represent watt - ticks, where a simulation tick is half a second.

[ZobrAZ]

Electrical capacity is actually Watt-per-Tick, and there is 2 ticks in 1 second for electric systems as Rocket mantioned on the stream.

[Decker]

Amp Hours isn't right - that discounts voltage... it's volts*amps*time.... or Joules

doing a google search for ...

1 joule in wattt seconds

1 = 1

[Decker]

batteries are often discounted for voltage since they are assumed to be constant so they simply battery ratings to amp-hours.

[Zothen]

Originally posted by Decker:

Amp Hours isn't right - that discounts voltage... it's volts*amps*time.... or Joules

Watt = power, ampere hour = electric charge.

Do your homework, please.

Oops, a battery... Oh, what says it label? Ah....

http://www.greenmotorsblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/18650-Batterie.jpg

[tef]

The correct unit for power storage is Watt Hour (Wh), Amp Hour is usable only for a fixed Voltage.

[Decker]

Right... but it's not Watt hours... it's Watt Seconds, which is Joules.