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defining amp-hours

We need to be speaking the same language in order to communicate.   I know there is a lot of confusion on this, so please allow me to attempt to clarify; amp-hours is energy, amps is power (when both are referenced at the same voltage).  You can think of amps as “instantaneous”, that is, the number of electrons flowing.  Amp-hours is power times time, which equals energy.  We usually talk in terms of amp-hours per day, in order to determine the overall energy used, generated, or stored.  
An electrical engineer will point out that this is not correct, that watts is the way to measure power and watt-hours is energy, and they would be technically correct, but we use amp-hours because it is more convenient and plenty close enough.

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