[90852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Fri Jun 16 23:11:44 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: david raistrick <drais@atlasta.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060617024322.GC782346@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> 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.
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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