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...fact, the three-to-five-day lag time between the group's arrival and the time it is issued BTUs (Basic Training Uniforms) creates something of a hierarchy around the Reception Battalion.? Newbies start in civilian hair, civilian shoes and those ill-fitting sweats; as one more-veteran private put it to us, "Everybody loves the new guy."? (Love supposedly equals yelling and push-ups.)? Over the past few days we have shed the shoes, the hair, the wide-eyed look; now we want the camouflage, both literally and figuratively...
...report didn't contain the safety analysis for what we were doing," says Galatis. "No heat-load calculations." It was then he realized the plant had been routinely operating "beyond design basis," putting 23 million BTUs into a pool analyzed for 8 million, which is, he says, "a bit like running your car at 5,000 r.p.m...
...versatile Viking is strictly homegrown. Back in 1980, Mississippi contractor Fred Carl Jr., with some prodding from his wife, designed a range with "zero clearance." Translation: although the ovens produce a powerful 55,000 BTUs, built-in insulation allows the stove to touch kitchen cabinets on either side. Gone was the fire hazard posed by overheated professional ranges, and so too the equatorial ambient temperature well known to chefs. Viking shipped its first models in 1986; they immediately caught...
...becomes more expensive, the most alluring aspect of natural gas will be its relatively low price. For heating purposes, gas currently costs about $5.50 per million BTUs, vs. $9 for oil. For powering vehicles, natural gas costs the equivalent of about 70 cents per gal., in contrast to the current $1.25 average for regular unleaded gasoline. If the current enthusiasm for natural gas leads to better delivery of the fuel and a wider array of uses, once neglected methane could be a popular fuel of the future...
...energy forecasts of Data Resources, Inc., Otto Eckstein's Lexington, Mass., econometrics firm. However sophisticated the model or precise its electricity computations, the forecasts will prove no more accurate than the input assumptions someone feeds it. MR&A's forecast last year projected about 104 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) total energy demand by the end of the century--considerably more than the projected figures of the U.S. Department of Energy. The divergence represents differing perceptions of conservation's impact on future energy use and the U.S. economy's sustained growth rate. The varied assumptions of different forecasting groups speak...