[USMA:24626] POWER Not SI

[John Nichols]

Dear All:

It is true that this topic is not metric, and it is true that for reasons of rushing a paper I asked the original and subsequent questions.
I can only offer the excuse that I am writing a paper for a bunch of engineers in the USA who work in barrels and quads and cf/s etc. I needed to change the units and also understand a little of the differences and to make sure I did not make mistakes when I go talk about this issue.

All the notes have been very helpful and I have made a much better paper that will be read hopefully by a few hundred non metric engineers who may learn some metric. Is that not the point of the USMA. SO indirectly this really helped

My TXU gas bill has MCF as the units says they are thousands of cubic feet. Anne says I ask this question every time I see the gas bill (she hides them from me I beleive for that reason) Is the M Roman thousand do you think? Is that common in the US gas industry?


Thanks a lot.

By the way the last tv I bought in Australia came from the box and I plugged it in. It displayed a note on teh screen to say it detected Australian voltage and PAL signals and would tune for Australia. The notes said it could handle US and NSTC also straight out of the box. Is that coming in elesewhere?

John

John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
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College Station, TX 77843-3137

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