Got any Contact address Stan?
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From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2008 22:21
Subject: [USMA:40488] Discovery's Buillding environment & Science Channel
"Saving the Earth Inside the Office" article in the February 25
Washington Post tells how the Discovery Corporation is making its central
headquarters building here in Silver Spring environmentally friendly.
Discovery also is starting a Science TV channel.
Let's hope Discovery uses the SI as its PRIMARY system of units.
The Post article tells how Discovery will capture 400 gallons rain water
in each of three tanks for vegetation watering. It sounds like a lot of
water; however, 1200 gallons equals about 5.1 kL (cubic metres) of water
which is not much, but it's a start. To put this in perspective, a Potomac
hydrologist discovered during a drought here a couple of years ago that a
single tree drinks up to 100 gallons per day.
Remember that one millimetre (1 mm) of rain over one square metre equals
a litre of rain water. using the SI is ever so simple and meaningful.
Let's try to get Discovery to use the SI exclusively on its new science
TV Channel. The Science Channel will be broadcast worldwide.
Stan Doore
