On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
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.
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).
Since you like Wikipedia so much, why don't you look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt Watt is not amount of power but amount of power produced during time, i.e. its speed of energy consumption. However kwatt-hour (I've never heard of watt-hour, but I suppose that maybe used too..) is actually amount of energy consumed - more precisely X kwr its how much energy device would consume if it were consuming energy at exactly the same speed of X kw for entire hour. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net