All of your examples are things where it is easier to relate physical size of the object to volumes expressed in cubic meters. The only way for me to think of the size of a 1 kL rain barrel is to realize it must have internal volume of 1 m³. But you make a good point, we should ban the liter entirely and just use cubic decimeters, centimeters, and millimeters. No great loss, and it would end the argument. However, in the spirit of cooperation, I can continue to accept the liter, and its uses with prefixes milli-, micro-, etc. --- On Fri, 4/10/09, STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]> wrote:
From: STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44505] Re: FPLA 2010 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:40 AM The kL would be very useful for things such as rain barrels, ponds, stream flow and other every day things to which people can relate. People can relate to the kL which is a clean and useful expression of everyday large volume. In the case of river flow and water and sewage systems, the use of gallons per minute are incomprehensible because it has no easy direct relationship to SI volume whereas kL (cubic meters) do. The use of L and not kL is also incomprehensible for stream flow because the numbers are so large.
