A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit…which may actually be even dumber, since it’s temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don’t use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’
Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.
the_beber@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It’s not like physicists, chemists or engineers are a thing.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
They are in fact 3 things