Now you're talking. The use of km^2 or m^2 would be much more
understandable and useful than use hectares
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremiah MacGregor
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:24 PM
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
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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
