One quad of BTU is 1.055 etc exajoules. I remember cause I have written it several times. I could not translate a cubic foot of gas to Joules.
John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional EngineerDate: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:06:40 -0800 From: John David Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Diogenes the Cynic Hot-Tubbing Society X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr,es,de,it To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:24662] Re: POWER Not SI Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My TXU gas bill has MCF as the units says they are thousands of cubic > feet. Anne says I ask this question every time I see the gas bill (she > hides them from me I beleive for that reason) Is the M Roman thousand do > you think? Is that common in the US gas industry? I strongly doubt it, but it certainly varies from place to place. Where I live, PG&E (the gas supplier for most of the northern 2/3 of California) prices its gas by the "therm". A phone call revealed that a "therm" is defined as 1000 BTUs. This unit (actually determined for billing purposes by measuring the volume used and the outdoor temperature, and applying a complicated formula written by the state Public Utilities Commission) is supposed to be fairer than pricing by volume because it allows for the fact that the gas expands with temperature: one "therm" in the summer occupies a greater volume but contains the same amount of gas. Does anyone here even recall how to convert the BTU to SI?
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