16 Jun
2006
16 Jun
'06
11:10 p.m.
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... --- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html