Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Crist Clark wrote:

> > Error: you MULTIPLY 3.413 to go from watts to BTU, not divide. It's be 
> > more like 154,000,000 BTU, /12000 or 12,798 tons.
>
> Well, the bigger problem here is that a watt is a measure of
> power (engergy/time) and a BTU is a unit of energy. There is no
> dimensionless conversion factor between the two.

Huh?

A Watt has no time constant. A watt is an amount of energy consumed at a 
moment (ie, a 60 watt light bulb), not an amount of energy over time (like 
a watt-hour; for instance, a 60 watt light bulb uses 60 watt-hours of 
power every hour, or 1.44 kwatt-hrs per day).

There is a direct correlation between watts and btu's, and that is:

        watts * 3.413 = btu





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