What does BTU stand for?

I've just seen The Hot Tub and when Kramer is talking about his new heat pump he refers to it's power in BTUs yet he also refered to the power of Jerry's air conditioner (not in the same episode) in BTUs. So what does BTU stand for because I have never heard of it? I know it's a stupid question but I suppose it's a question about nothing.

On another note I saw Mr Pitt in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents... last night, so there is life after socks.

It's like Sweden.

mark

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A BTU is a British Thermal Unit. For those who care:

1 kiloWatt/hour (which is most likely the units of your electric bill) is about 3412 BTU's. So you can now figure out just how powerful Kramer's new heat pump is in relation to all of your electrical appliances.

I'm pretty sure that even today, if you purchase an air conditioner, its power will be given in BTU's.

I will ignore the significance of someone from the US explaining to someone in the UK about _British_ Thermal Units. :) :) :)

-Dan

In , Daniel Karipides writes:

BTU = The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water by 1 degree Fahrenheit.

BTU is short for British Thermal Unit. it is a measure of the power of an air conditioner.

1 kilowatt hour equals 3413 BTU's. (yet another useful fact I learned in college) :-) I figured a 1 BTU correction is something that would aslo be argued on the show.

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:31:55 -0400, Daniel Karipides wrote:

The acronym BTU stands for "British Thermal Unit."

Namaste, --=Marc

Well thanks a lot everyone I guess we got that one sorted out quick smart. I will admit it was in my dictonary, under BTU, but who would have thought it. As to the chance of me know stuff like that, then gee I guess I've really let my stiff upper lip down. What amazes me is that we invent a standard unit of measurment and we now, i think don't qoute me on this I'm a writer not a heating engineer (I also use my spell check a lot), use the kilowatt for power ratings. The metric sytem you should try it you just use lots of 1's and 0's which should turn the computer minded on out there.

No Yankees coming down then while you bastards are running things.

mark

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I'll bet you guys are not REALLY metric, but just scratched the surface. For example: You need to redefine one revolution of the earth around the sun as 1000 days, or a kiloday which equals one year. The 1000 days could be grouped into 10 months of 100 days, with 10 10-day weeks in a month. Each day is then 10 hours, consisting of a hundred seconds each. (A small side effect is that sunrise and sunset happen at completely "random" points in each day, and the second itself would need to be rederined, but it's a small price to pay for conformity with such a wonderful system.) In addition to the seven named days of the week, we would need 3 more -- I suggest Deciday (the 10th day of the week), Stupiday (between Monday and Tuesday) and Firstday (between Saturday and Sunday).

Also, do you use Km per hour for speed limits? Shame on you - it should be meters per second.

I'd write much more, but I'm too hot -- it's supposed to hit something like a sweltering 37 degrees today!

;-)     ;-)     ;-)   No flames please.

P.S. - quickly now, how many kilometers per liter does your car get?

be

i think you're getting "metric" confused with SI (system internationale)... km/hr is metric as well. -A

Straight up - bro! (...retro 80's Ebonics...)

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As long as you're not bitter. Might I remind you that you brought up the issue of complexity in the metric system even though Alex A's argument had nothing to do with it? The difference between km/hr and m/s is one similar to say, one between mi/hr and yds/sec--not one specific to the metric system. I would have posted sooner, but I'm having problems figuring out the complexities of the mouse (makes clicking difficult). --A

On 16 Jul 1997, Dave wrote:

system, we would be able to trade with the rest of the world. Right now we have to make two different versions of everything we export-- screws for example. We have to make them in our own measurments, and we have to make them in the rest of the world's measurements. Can you honestly say it wouldn't be less complicated to just make the metric screws? And what's wrong with making everything standardized whether it's based on the number 10 or the number 32 for example?

BTU stands for British Thermal Unit , i think

Nope... seconds, minutes and hours are really messy, and not at all decimal friendly. A *TRULY* metric-like system of time would be a system invented by an engineer with whom I shared an office at EPA many years ago...

the MILLIDAY system. (credit goes to one Don Lokey, whom I think still works for EPA.)

I once knew a joke about BTUs, but it has faded in my memory and for that you all should be exceedingly glad. It was very much a nerdy, Dilbert like joke, and only we nerdsters would probably understand it. :-)

British Thermal Units: Used as a rating for air conditioning.

Mike

Actualy it does forty hectares on a single litre of kerosene.

I would like to see you sitting down.

mark

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Since a hectare is a unit of area (akin to the acre), I assume you are talking about your lawn mower doing 40 hectares per litre. :-)

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In , Bob Roman writes:

Lighten up, Bob.  The Websters New College Dictionary (1996) does not
include 'BTU', the definition is listed under 'British Thermal Unit'.  Now, if
mgarrett didn't know what the letters stood for, how was he(?) to find
it under 'BR'?
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