WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

Sat Jun 17 01:54:00 UTC 2006

Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> 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
>

You're confusing Watts and joules. One Watt is one joule of energy per 
second.