To all, This message was meant to be sent to the list, but was sent to Carleton by mistake. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: maandag 1 januari 2001 15:35 Subject: BTU and therm. Was: Re: [USMA:10139] Re: It is so cold here. > Carleton and all, > > A therm is supposed to be 10 000 BTU, but when I had installed the ProKon > conversion program from a CD I found out that there are at least 6 different > BTU's and two different therms. Converting 1 therm to BTU never yielded > exactly 10 000 BTU, always something near that value. > > There was the US therm, but does anybody know what a European Community > therm is? What do we need that for in the EU? I wonder whether the EU has > been pressurised in the past to adopt such abberation. Nobody in the metric > member states of the EU knows what a BTU or therm is. > I would have understood the existence of an UK therm, but there was no > mention of it. Maybe 'our' therm is the UK version. > > The French had a unit called thermie, belonging to the now obsolete Meter > Tonne Second system, it was 10 000 kcal. > > Ifp never stops amazing one once more! > > Han > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: maandag 1 januari 2001 04:59 > Subject: [USMA:10139] Re: It is so cold here. > > > > In a message dated 2000-12-23 13:00:15 Eastern Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > <snip> > > > > > Here in suburban Washington, DC I keep my thermostat at 19 C during the > > evening and for a couple hours in the morning, and at 13 C the rest of the > > time (19 C all day except late night, on weekends). People wear sweat > shirts > > at home and don't complain much. > > > > Gas went from 33 cents a therm to 58 cents this month. I don't know what > a > > therm is but that's how they bill it here. > > > > Carleton > > P.S. Sorry, I don't know how to make the degree symbol. > > > >
