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Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Fri Jun 16 21:54:39 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:54:00 -0500
From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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.
