Quad

Quad
  One quadrillion Btu. (1,000,000,000,000,000 Btu)
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  One quadrillion (1015 or 1,000,000,000,000,000) British thermal units (Btus). An amount of energy equal to 170 million barrels of oil. Total U.S. consumption of all forms of energy is (in the 1990s) about 83 quads in an average year.
  California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms

Energy terms . 2014.

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