I can envision 1 L or a few, I can't envision 3 million. Would not 3000 m³ be a lot better than throwing in "big counting words" in lieu of a suitable unit or prefix?
I will probably take flack for this one, but SAE metric practice is to use the cubic dekameter for large amounts of water, such as irrigation, where traditional measure would be the acre-foot. In that notation, the leak would be 3 dam³/day. ________________________________ From: Paul Armstrong <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 11:48:40 AM Subject: [USMA:47645] Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI At 2010-06-09T14:20-0500, [email protected] wrote: > 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. The last time I heard a story about it was a BBC world service podcast where "3 million liters per day" was used. Paul
