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The issue is driven by fracking, which has lowered the price of a million B.T.U. of gas to the range of $3.25, down 75 percent from its recent peak.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2013
GlassPoint said that at a full-size plant, its technology could produce steam at a cost of $3 per million B.T.U., compared with a market price of gas today of around $4 per million B.T.U.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2011
The amount of steam needed to produce a barrel of oil varies according to the age of the field, but 2 million B.T.U. per barrel is typical.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2011
Kerosene burned in jet engines yields only about 18,500 B.T.U. per lb.
From Time Magazine Archive
To give a concrete example, if the pressure of your supply is 200 volts, and you take a current of five amperes for an hour, you will have consumed one B.T.U.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
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