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Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Fri Jun 16 23:15:09 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:12:02 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Crist Clark <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4492D0AB.8C45.0097.0@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Crist Clark wrote:
>> Error: you MULTIPLY 3.413 to go from watts to BTU, not divide. It's be
>> more like 154,000,000 BTU, /12000 or 12,798 tons.
>
> Well, the bigger problem here is that a watt is a measure of
> power (engergy/time) and a BTU is a unit of energy. There is no
> dimensionless conversion factor between the two.
Alright, I am sorry I missed that. It should read:
>> Error: you MULTIPLY 3.413 to go from watts to BTU/hr, not divide. It's
>> be more like 154,000,000 BTU/hr, /12000 or 12,798 tons.
Sorry! Sheesh.
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