I prefer BTO.

Have a great Friday!

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1 Therm = 100,000 Btu (nominally)

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> On 2014-01-08, at 08:10, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote:
>
>> I need correcting before the picking starts :)
>>
>>> That's only about 7 tons of hard pressed snow.
>> make that 20..40 tons (~300..600kg/m3)
>>
>>> ...you would need 70,000kcal/degree to melt...
>> If you can't wait until July, 35,000 Cal per degree (C|K) should do -
>> kcal / Cal / Kal = kilo-calorie
>> 1 Cal = 1kg water / degree (C|K)
>>
>> Hopefully I made my point in favor of SI !
>>
> Domesting heating is measured in BTU;

British Thermal Units.

> cooling in tons (of
> melting ice?) and fuel energy is billed in therms (whatever that is)

Probably British Thermal Units.

> Hubble's constant has unit km/sec/Mpc (which reduces to Hz with some
> minuscule coefficient.)

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