For incompressible fluids e.g. oil (and even for methane) kilograms or metric tons of mass are easier to visualize and would be better than any unit of volume, and kg/s is best for rate of flow, liquid or gas.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:23:44 -0700 (PDT) >From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47649] Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > 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. >... >
