Ubuntu shows the remaining battery time on my desktop as ~2 hours.

I was trying to arrive at this same value from /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent. The output of cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent for that instant:

POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0 POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Discharging POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1 POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=481 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=7400000 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=7400000 POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_NOW=9361000 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN=48248000 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL=40877000 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=20712000 POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=50 POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=UX32-65 POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=ASUSTeK POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER=

I was assuming the POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW value would be in Watt. How do I work out the remaining battery time from this?

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Power now = 9.361W, energy now = 20.712Wh. Remaining time is 20.712 / 9.361 which is approximately two hours.

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