# Power Walls

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-walls/1013536 "2025-01-28T15:37:25Z")\
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> [@bobsmom101](#):
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> I swear to FSM, I don’t know how I passed that IRS tax exam

Lol, the irony is that @bobsmom101 is helping me over at another numbers-heavy [tax thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-tax-professional-do-i-need-as-a-sole-proprietor-who-bills-clients-directly/1012779).

I mean, I get it. Add a dollar sign in front of otherwise ordinary numbers, and my eyes just unavoidably glaze over. Add kW to the end, and I guess the same thing happens to them 🙂

To be fair, though, the watt and kilowatthour are totally crazy units that should be banished from existence. Confuses everyone. In school we had a homework assignment to find W/Wh/kWh errors on supposedly informative websites, and there were so, so many…

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