The kilocalorie, used for heating tends to be replaced by the kilowatt, at least in Europe including the British Isles, where the BTU/h was/is used. kJ/h is wrong and deprecated as well,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara and/or Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: [USMA:16285] Re: Wentworth letter Harry Wyeth commented: ... it will suffice if we can simply increase use of the "big three", being the liter, the kilogram, and the kilometer (and their subdivisions). I don't think that the "Big Three" would quite suffice. I think we need to include degrees Celsius and watts and maybe (although a bit less important) kilopascals and kilojoules. Various combinations like kilometres per hour need to be included, also (and perhaps Wyeth meant to include them). These are all used in common everyday situations. (The lengthy list of examples is relegated to a footnote below.*) Regards, Bill Hooper ===================== *Examples: <snip> Kilojoules will replace calories in dietetics. Heating and cooling systems will increasingly be measured in kilojoules per hour. (And the watt can be explained as nothing more than a joule per second.) <snip>
