2000-12-08
A change in the home meters, such as gas, water and electric will eventually
be done in an upgrade to a digital system. There will come a time, when the
meters will be tied to your phone line or some other means, so that the
energy companies can in an instant get a reading. This might be cheaper and
safer then sending someone house to house every couple of months and
estimating those months not being read. In fact they will even be able to
get a better grasp of peaks and valleys for consumption.
Such a system might be designed in SI or FFU or use some type of unitless
method. A host computer could then display or calculate for billing in any
units desired. when these units are installed in everyone's home, and FFU
is still and use and these companies decide to use FFU at first, it won't be
a big deal for them to go to SI, as all they would have to do is change
something in the program. A one-time instant switch that is costless.
Just like gas pumps and digital scales made today are. Most, if not all
could be converted to litres of grams/kilograms with either the flip of a
switch or if on a central network, a simple software change. Instant and
costless. The only cost to gas pumps would be the purchase of adhesive
stickers with the word LITRES on them to cover up the word gallons.
Conversion to SI in many areas is not expensive at all, despite what the
opposition wants one to believe.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der sich irrt�mlich
glaubt frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gregory Peterson
Sent: Friday, 2000-12-08 14:42
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9630] Re: Miles, nautical miles, and knots
This would like the kW.h that my electrical company uses to
measure my consumption rather than joules.
Upon asking SaskPower if they would ever consider using joules
they told me that they use joules (i.e. GJ) in all their
documentation with respect to their power plant outputs, annual
consumptions, etc., but they wouldn't consider changing the
domestic meters, more out of the habitual use of kW.h as an
"electrical energy" unit than for the cost of having to replace
meters or update their computerized billing outputs.
BTW... I like the "knot-hour (kn.h)" suggestion, Justin.
greg
>>> Justin JIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2000-12-08 02:23:33 >>>
There are too many kinds of miles in current or
past use. Nautical (1852 m), international (1609.344
m), US statute (1609.347 m) miles are now used. They
can cause confusion. For more information on various
miles, visit "A Dictionary of Units of Measurement" *
Russ Rowlett at
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictM.html .
While there are no internationally accepted
symbols of nautical miles and knots, in China, "n
mile" is used as a local symbol of nautical miles, but
it looks like an abbreviation, and "kn" is used as a
symbol of knots as well. Since a knot equals to a
nautical mile per hour (1 kn = 1 n mile/h), I wonder
if it is good enough to call a "knot-hour" (kn h) as a
substitute of a nautical mile. The above link has
stated that the knot has been used in error as the
nautical mile.
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