@NicholasLaney@nebbia.fail

What does it mean to consume a certain minimum of power per some _specific_ period of time?

If it's roughly the power needed to lift very little weight, an idle lift consumes even less than that, and the busiest of lifts sits idle at least some time (wouldn't that be the minimum? the power needed to keep the lights on?)

Also: how's that a minimum _per hour_? If it's the power needed when idling, wouldn't that measure be identical _per day_? Or _per year_? The time dimension is irrelevant here. It should be _W_, _horsepower_, or any other unit of _power_.

Analogy with a smartphone again: if the minimum power consumed by some phone is what it needs to stay idle with its screen off (maybe in “flight mode” too), _that would be it_: you wouldn't express that in _KW/h_ or in _mW/h_ — because that's the minimum also _per week_, or _per year_.