• lugal
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    3 months ago

    ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’

    Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.

    • Andonyx@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.