British thermal unit

基本解释

Typical units of energy are kW/h, Btu (British thermal unit), Hp/h, ft/lbf, joule and calorie.
经常用的能量单位有：千瓦/小时、英国热量单位、马力/小时、焦耳、卡等。
That land receives more than 4, 500 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) of solar energy a year.
这片土地一年接受了超过了450 京BTU的太阳能。
At current low prices of less than $5 per million British thermal units, natural gas doesn't need subsidies to encourage utilities to switch from coal or oil to gas for generating power.
天然气目前每英制热量单位不足5美元的低价位，不用津贴就足以使业者从煤、石油发电改为天然气发电。

International, realized that standard measurements for sources of energy—barrels of oil, tons of coal, gallons of gas, British thermal units—were nearly impossible to compare.
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First, the history: Back in 1993, President Clinton proposed a broad-based energy tax (called a BTU tax since it taxed energy content measured in British Thermal Units).
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To put that in perspective, the Energy Information Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, estimates the country annually consumes 100 quads (lingo for quadrillion British thermal units)y.
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