B.T.U.

A pound of coal gives on a very conservative estimate ten thousand British thermal units (B.T.U.), and one B.T.U. furnished per second will give one and four-tenths horse-power if all utilized.

The Coal Situation 1923

There will be from good coking coal about six thousand four hundred cubic feet of gas of five hundred B.T.U. per cubic foot, and this could be furnished to gas companies at from thirty to fifty cents per M, with sulphur removed.

The Coal Situation 1923

Natural gas prices per million B.T.U., the standard unit for gas, rose to over $12 before the recession began, but are now in the range of $4 to $4.50.

NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2011

Sludge, the solids that remain after sewage has been cleaned into effluent, has a high B.T.U. content (a measurement of fuel's energy); it burns efficiently and well.

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With supply shooting higher and demand creeping gently, natural gas prices should remain below $5 per million B.T.U. units through 2011.

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Exelon said it needs natural gas prices to reach about $8 per million B.T.U. - almost double today's price - and a carbon fee of $25 a ton to make the project worthwhile economically.

NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2010

Exelon said it needs natural gas prices to reach about $8 per million B.T.U. - almost double today's price - and a carbon fee of $25 a ton to make the project worthwhile economically.

NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2010

Exelon said it needs natural gas prices to reach about $8 per million B.T.U. - almost double today's price - and a carbon fee of $25 a ton to make the project worthwhile economically.

NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2010

For instance, to mollify Democrats from energy-producing states, Clinton withdrew a proposed tax on B.T.U. consumption.

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But Sourcewatch points to a 1993 Time magazine story that documents a group by the same name launched by the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute to fight the so-called B.T.U. tax, a proposed Clinton-era levy that would have hit oil especially hard.

Facing South 2009