You are mixing up watts and kilowatts. 1000 watts = 1 kilowatt. The average North American home uses about 1000 watts at any given time, or 1 kilowatt. Electricity is sold in units of kilowatt hours, which is 1000 watts for 1 hour.eport Abuse. The average household in the United States uses about 8,900 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.. there are 9000 hours in a year. so 9e3 kwatt-hour/9e3 = about 1kw average usage, averaged over time, is 1000 watts.
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood. timber (Noun). Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. timber (Noun). A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.Historically also used in the plural, as in ship's timbers.ood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. timber (Noun). A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
The word lumber is not used outside North America. Timber is timber, the US refers to timber a s lumber. In the US this is how it is summarised. 1.Timber is dominantly considered as the wood that is still attached to the ground whereas lumber is no longer standing on the ground. 2.Timber is widely accepted as the wood with its bark still on whereas lumber no longer has the wooden bark. 3.Timber is the word used to refer to wooden boards in the U.K. and Australia while lumber is the wooden board for the American and Canadian denomination.