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lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

A 12 oz glass bottle takes roughly 1100 BTUs to melt the glass for. That is conveniently, roughly, 1.1 cubic ft of natural gas.

60,000 BTU/hr is a very common size for natural gas HVAC furnaces. That’s basically a bottle a minute, just to give people an idea.

There are other inputs of course, but furnace net efficiency is around 2200 BTU/lb

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