"The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A. ...The result is that while Houston's 150,000 tons of air conditioning cool the city's office buildings, they also put out about 1.8 billion BTUs of heat. And that's each hour. For an eight-hour day, the total is an astronomical 14.4 billion BTUs or enough heat to boil ten kettles of water the size of the Astrodome..."