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From: petertrei@gmail.com
On 1/12/2026 10:15 PM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> On 11/01/2026 22:20, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> In article <10k0qgo$3r1s$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36
>> wrote:
>>> I have never run across "tons" when talking about cooling. I don't think
>>> it is common. I have seen BTUs, CFM at xxx degrees, etc.
>>
>> It's pretty common for any industrial AC stuff. Americans also use
>> "BTU" when we mean "BTU/hr" which is almost as bad as the whole
>> "calories meaning kcal" mess.
>
> Heh. Got my UK gas bill yesterday, it includes:
>
> 734.9 kWh - 23.5 gas units at 38.9 calorific value
>
> In my case (it varies) a "gas unit" is 100 cubic feet (which isn't
> stated on the bill); the calorific value is given in MJ/m^3 (which isn't
> stated on the bill); plus there is a "correction factor" of about 1.02
> (which isn't even mentioned, never mind the exact value used being given
> on the bill).
>
> Still, they used to use therms. And maybe ergs, gallons and foot-pounds.
> Or Batmans (a real unit, though now obsolete, and unrelated to Mr Wayne).
>
> Aargh, I just found out they still use therms sometimes.
>
> dunks head in bucket
>
>
>
> Kiloseconds, anyone? 16 min 40 seconds.
> Megasecond? 11 days 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds.
> Gigasecond? about 31.7 years (about 'cos leap years etc)
>
> millisecond - too fast for you or me, a young fit cat takes about 20
> milliseconds to react
> microseconds - timing accuracy of detonations in an atomic bomb
> nanoseconds - light travels about a foot (see Grace Hopper)
These days, physicists are studying events at the attosecond scale,
about the time it takes light to cross an atom.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-fast-quantum-entanglement-scientis
s-attosecond.html
pt
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