---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:15:49 -0400
>From: Patrick Moore <[email protected]>
>Subject: [USMA:47617] Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
>
>Gigamoles per second, anyone? : )
This might be the SI choice of a combustion chemist, but kg/s is probably a
better choice for most of us SI generalists.
Gene.
>
>> From: <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:20:17 -0500 (CDT)
>> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [USMA:47616] Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI
>>
>>
>> I *heard* on a news network that the Technical Team assigned to measure the
>> flow rate of crude oil and gas leaking from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
>> is
>> measuring depth in meters, *independent* of BP statements.
>>
>> What unit of flow rate is being used by the Team? I would like to hear the
>> rate in kg/s for each major hydrocarbon component of the liquid and gas
>> leakage.
>>
>> Neither "barrels per day" nor "gallons per day" is acceptable.
>>
>> Gene Mechtly.
>>
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