All semantics without any impact on the fundamentals. Some folks prefer to quibble about the difference between thermal ENERGY and thermal POWER.. And "heat" is generally considered to be thermal energy in motion or in transfer between objects..
Says the guy who believed that he knew that heat was a form of energy even though science remains unsure. I am sure that it isn't important to you because you believe you know...you believe.
What you have here -- is just an esoteric distinction that is made because some Physicists gets pissy that HEAT is only heat energy in motion.. Capice ???? NOT -- any kind of earth of earth-smashing refutation of basic science. By that definition -- a BTU is not a measure of "heat energy" not heat power...
What I have here is a perfectly valid point that neither you, nor anyone else can satisfactorily answer... Post up the second law...heat can't move from a cool object to a warm object and someone invariably pipes up....heat and energy are two different things...heat can't move from cool to warm but energy can....so is heat energy or not? The answer matters.
Listen up.. By that reasoning -- a battery does not store electricity. Because there is no electricity --- unless a current flows... Hopeless semantics..
Piss poor analogy flacaltenn...
hook that 1.5V battery up to a wire and run that wire to a 12V battery...do you think those electrons are going to disobey the second law and run up that wire from the 1.5V battery to the 12V battery? Do you think that they need to be intelligent in order to not at least try?