[USMA:36684] RE: sea transport and metrication

[Bill Hooper]

On 2006 Apr 29 , at 11:44 AM, Phil Chernack wrote: ... power is going to be expressed in terms of the electric engines and thus, watts.  That's Unfortunate, isn't it? The words "and thus" seem to indicate that somehow it is supposed to be obvious that if it's electrical it must automatically be in watts (and the unstated but erroneous corollary that if it's NOT electrical it can NOT be in watts). It shows that there is still a wide spread misunderstanding that watts only measures ELECTRIC  power (or even that "watts measures amount of electricity", whatever that might mean). Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ==========================    SImplification Begins With SI. ==========================