There are 100 hectares in a square kilometre. 2500 hectares is therefore equivalent to 25 square kilometres or the area of a town that is five kilometres from North to South and five kilometres from East to West.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremiah MacGregor Sent: 24 January 2009 18:25 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42454] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution 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
