[90850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Jun 16 22:43:49 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:43:22 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0606162115320.3144@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
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Once upon a time, Alex Rubenstein <alex@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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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
