WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

Sat Jun 17 02:43:22 UTC 2006

Once upon a time, Alex Rubenstein <alex at nac.net> said:
> There is a direct correlation between watts and btu's, and that is:
> 
> 	watts * 3.413 = btu

No, that's wrong.

$ units
2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units

You have: watt
You want: btu
conformability error
        1 kg m^2 / s^3
        1055.0559 kg m^2 / s^2
You have: watt hour
You want: btu
        * 3.4121416
        / 0.29307107

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