The energy technologies that create, manage and deliver the most expensive BTUs are the most valuable.
Are we all retired now, counting our pennies and our btus until we finally adjourn.
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One watt generates 3.41 BTUs, so each 250-watt device generates 852.50 watts per hour, or 7, 467, 900 BTUs annually.
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Using energy intensity as a measure, the U.S. is using slightly more than 9, 000 BTUs per dollar of GDP.
Ukraine uses 138, 000 BTUs of energy for every dollar of GDP--roughly 30 times the level of consumption in Japan.
All yield (or demand) BTUs, which provides nothing informative about the different productive impacts, or reasons economies employ a technology.
For sake of our example, assume each device draws the same amount of power and generates the same number of BTUs.
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It's smokin' (with an integrated wood-fire smoking drawer), rockin' (with a composite-stone baking surface) and it brings the heat: 30, 000 BTUs' worth.
Estimates are that it cost double that of a coal unit, which produce twice the oomph, or BTUs, as do wood chips.
How, then, to do energy accounting, if BTUs are not interchangeable?
They will get the product that has burners that go down to 800 BTUs instead of a thousand, so they don't burn their fettucine alfredo sauce.
To reveal the Congressman's insight, it's not especially useful to talk in billions of barrels and BTUs, none of which has much meaning to most of us.
The chemical, one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen, stores a lot of energy: a gallon of it has about half the Btus as a gallon of diesel.
The market, needless to say, recognizes and willingly pays for, indeed prefers the latter BTUs because they are higher quality, can do more and produce more valuable things.
Businesses typically measure sustainability either by counting reductions specific to each domain (BTUs, gallons, kWhs), or they equate sustainability with carbon or cost reductions (typically gained through efficiency improvements).
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You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
With a combined heat and power plant, some of those 76 wasted BTUs that were going out the stack are captured, generally as steam or hot water that can get piped around and used for heat.
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Mr. Capitalism ought to realize that the case for free trade does not end when BTUs enter into the conversation and that energy independence provides few economic or foreign policy advantages despite widespread belief to the contrary.
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