WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

Sat Jun 17 03:10:29 UTC 2006

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Chris Adams wrote:

>
> 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.

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...

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