They probably think that everyone who looks at their data is at a large organization with vast resources to write data conversion programs. What of the third year undergraduate taking his or her first course on energy in, say, an environmental track of study? How can that student do any comparative analysis without first spending weeks digging out the definitions of these arcane units and symbols then learning how to compare them? And why should a modern student have to learn these obsolescent units anyway? I'm still working on the "number of coal cars loaded". Still haven't found a good number for the quantity of coal each car represents! (I think it's in the order of 140 t.) And that's a number I could use for this encyclopedia article I'm writing. Jim Chris Marnay wrote: > > Jim, thanks for doing this. We use the National Energy Modeling System, which is the >source of the forecasts in the Annual Energy Outlook, and so work with EIA on a >regular basis. I raise the SI issue with them about once a year and get rebuffed >every time. The usual response is that we should be able to write our own post >processor to convert the output tables to SI! I forwarded your letter to some of the >people I have contact with to emphasize that I a not the ONLY one. .... -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
