US models approx 2-3 kWh because energy efficiency laws are nowhere near as strict, and they use hot fill of usually electrically heated water.

You're probably right about that. A lot of people grew up without dishwashers and don't have a way to economically install one outside of a major kitchen remodel even if they have the space which many in cities don't have. They're also not the, for lack of a better term, necessities that washers, stoves, and ovens are. And, of course, dishwashers don't eliminate the need for any handwashing and if you aren't cooking or doing a lot of entertaining a lot, they may not be all that useful. I do cook but still probably only run my dishwasher 2 or 3 times per week.

I'll put aside the two-bit attitude and that you don't know that power (W) and energy (Wh) were measured in the exact same way in the "70s or something" (just ask your grandparents).

> the world decided to use kWh as the thing to measure

> kw per day, kw per week, kw per month, kw per year.

There is no such thing as "kw per day". You switched between units from one sentence to the next? The world indeed measures kWh per day, not kW per day. The lazy use kW per day as a shorthand and drop the "hour" to speak faster. The less educated measure "kW/day" because they don't understand the concepts and just parrot a common mistake. When they say "kW/day" what they should actually say is "kWh/day". It's where the unintuitive part comes in, they omit the "hour" or assume kWh is the same as kW/h, like km/h, instead of kW times h.

> This discussion seems super silly, considering he's just using the measurement that the industry adopted decades ago...

The industry adopted the correct measurement units decades before your grandparents were born. You just have a hard time understanding because it's easier to do cheap snark.

Unlike those people from the 70s or something, y'all live in a world with all the information you could want at your fingertips, you even have machines (AI) that digest it for you, and you even had me bothering to give an explanation a kid could process. To be unapologetically ignorant today is the same as being intellectually incompetent, ffsm8.

Except that GP (pmontra) had asked "Is that 30 kW each hour of the day?"

Clearly someone asking that doesn't understand what kWh/day means, and since you were backing GP, it seemed reasonable to guess that you might not understand either.