Will a 1/3 horse power sump pump motor burn up at half power?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ether

power and energy are not the same thing.

They aren't, but for some reason known to nobody, they share the same units. Joules in the SI, BTU and its equivalents in the Eng. system. (Eng. == either English or Engineering, which for functional purposes are indistinguishable.) This makes the calculations very similar when all's said and done.

150 kJ << without my telling you, is this power or energy?

150 kN-m << That's power, but to get that I had to expand the unit. Also note that that is a torque unit as well.

Energy has a number of ways to get to the kJ unit, none of them simple. Something about energy/mass * mass in a number of weird combinations makes it a little hard to translate out of handwriting.