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therefore

1000 watts used for 1 hour = 1 kilowatt hour
or
3,600,000 watts = 1 kilowatt hour

you must be reading another page !

I found it really quickly



if what you wrote above does not mean what it says then what does it really mean?

1) Nor can any amount of watts
2) ever equal
3) any amount of kwh

1) an amount of 3,600,000 watts
2) equals
3) 1 kWh

thats pretty clear and straight forward.

I think you think that a kWh must be used in 1 hour
but that would be wrong.

think about your electric bill , and kilowatt hours are units of billing of electricity , you might use only 1000 kWh per month , during the month.

a single light bulb that uses 21 watts will use
21 watts * 3600 seconds per hour
which would be 75,600 watt-seconds per hour or 75.6 kW per hour or 0.021 kWh

using algebra try the following equation
I wont attempt it because Im not a algebrain

1kW * 1 hour = ?

in reality it is possible to use 3,600,000 watts in 1 hour

suppose you are changing the heaters out for a large complex that uses 3,600 electric heaters and you need to know how much electricity they will draw in order to ensure that your emergency generators can handle the load if they are all turned on because you want to make sure that the generator will not feel to much of a power surge and shut itself down because of its overload protection.

not counting all other electricity draws except the heaters and also not counting the initial surge.

knowing that the heaters will use a total of
1000 watts * 3600 seconds * 3600 heaters each hour of use

12,960,000,000 watts per hour

1) would you need a 1kWh generator?
2) would you need a 3,600,000 watt generator?
3) would you need a 12 gigawatt generator?