We've had this in Massachusetts for several years. BostonGas does meter
readings by radio transmission. Bay State Gas (in western MA) does meter
readings by modem dial-up. Sorry to say, however, that natural gas is
measured in cubic WOMBAT.
kilopascal wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> -----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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