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Old 09-02-2010, 01:46 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
1hp out of 100 watts is impossible because 1 hp = 745.699872 watts, you can not get more out of something then you put in to it, Horse power is a unit of measurement that can directly be converted in to watts or watts in to horse power.
That's what I've been told, but how did science come to that conclusion? What basis of experiment returned the unerring result of ~746 watts to generate one horsepower?
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