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Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
From: david raistrick <drais () atlasta net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net> said:There is a direct correlation between watts and btu's, and that is: watts * 3.413 = btuNo, that's wrong.
Oh lord.a Watt is equal to one joule of energy per second. Period. a watt/hour is equal to, oh, lets see, 3600 joules consumed in that hour.
1 joule is oh, 0.00094781712 btu according to one chart, .00094845 on another.
the math is really straight forward here guys... --- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais () atlasta net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
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- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alex Rubenstein (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Michael Loftis (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alexei Roudnev (Jun 17)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Crist Clark (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alex Rubenstein (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Nicholas Suan (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power william(at)elan.net (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Adam McKenna (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Chris Adams (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alex Rubenstein (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power david raistrick (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power David Lesher (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alex Rubenstein (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power David Lesher (Jun 17)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alexei Roudnev (Jun 17)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alex Rubenstein (Jun 16)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Alexei Roudnev (Jun 17)
- Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power Jeff Shultz (Jun 16)
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