Jim, I can visualize a square kilometer of area but hectares would be difficult. I would have to think for a moment as to what that would mean.. Even if you changed it into acres you still would lose me. Maybe it is just the big numbers that seem intimidating.
If I measured my lot in meters it would be about 50 x 20. This is 1000 sq m. I guess it would take 10 lots equal to mine to be a hectare. Jerry ________________________________ From: James Frysinger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 2:31:27 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:42454] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution Well, I know that my farm is 100 ha in area.. That's a square kilometer. I've used this figure and have discussed hectares in my weekly columns in the local newspaper of record (The Mountain View).* As I recall, we determined that the high school parking lot was 0.5 ha in size. So, I would hope that many of the residents of Van Buren County TN are at least slightly conversant with hectares. We live east of McMinnville TN (which is in Warren County). On the west side of McMinnville is a community called Morrison. In Morrison is an automotive parts supplier called Yorozu Automotive Tennessee. Their web page gives the size of their land area and their building in square meters only. Knowing how many square meters are in a hectare, I can easily see that their land area is just under 25 ha, or about one-fourth of the size of my farm. http://www.yorozu-corp.co.jp/en/point/yat.htm Jim * I'm taking a temporary break in the writing of this column. Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: > Norman, > Who in the US would know what 2500 hectares is? I don't even know what 6180 >acres is. I would prefer it if they used square miles or kilos. Jerry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Norman & Nancy Werling <[email protected]> > *To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 9:50:06 AM > *Subject:* [USMA:42415] An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta > Journal-Constitution > > USMA list members, > Spanish energy company Acciona Energia will build a wind farm in Mexico >which will be the largest in Latin America. > The article was written by Mark Stevenson of Associated Press. It states >that the wind farm will be 6180 acres. When converted back to hectares that >would have been 2500 hectares. Don't you agree that Mark Stevenson was >required to convert those 2500 hectares to 6180 acres by the Associated Press, >even had he wanted to report using the metric measure? > Norm Werling -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
