For instance, to mollify Democrats from energy-producing states, Clinton withdrew a proposed tax on B.T.U. consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | The New York Observer] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coal Situation] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coal Situation] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing South] Reference

That these claims are well founded is shown by the fact that in the plant at the Edison station, he is securing an output of 200 horse-power from a single-stage steam turbine with atmospheric exhaust, weighing less than 2 pounds per horse-power, which is contained within a space measuring 2 feet by 3 feet, by 2 feet in height, and which accomplishes these results with a thermal fall of only 130 B.T.U., that is, about one-third of the total drop available.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Half Full] Reference

(In B.T.U. per Cubic Foot.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference