On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:44:52 -0000, Tekkie® wrote:

James Wilkinson Sword posted for all of us...



On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 23:52:43 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 02/01/2017 04:31 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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BTU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_thermal_unit
The metric unit is the calorie.

No, for power it's the kWh. We don't use BTUs in the UK anymore.

Calories are only for your body.

It's a unit of energy. Where the energy is is irrelevant.

They can measure the Calorie content of food by burning it and measuring
the heat produced. This isn't in anyone's body.

Nobody uses calories outside of the human body. We'd be better using watts everywhere though.

What???

No, watt.

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