Well done, Michael.
It was a joy to read your letter to your congressman.
Cheers,
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On 2010/10/22, at 05:10 , Michael Payne wrote:
With thanks to all of you who give me the thoughts necessary to
generate these letters.
Mike Payne
At the bottom of this email are web sites that can give some insight
into how the United States loses probably billions in manufacturing
business to foreign companies because we are the only country on the
planet using an archaic leftover from the Roman Empire. We use a
mish mash of units inherited from the British, feet, inches, pounds,
ounces,
etc. instead of the modern “coherent” Metric system which has only 7
basic units, this not only makes us less productive as a nation, it
means we cannot manufacture and sell to any other country unless we
make it metric with metric nuts, bolts, instructions, etc. What this
means is that we have to use 2 different systems of measurement.
Using "US Customary" units is akin to doing math in Roman Numerals,
it is honestly that much more complicated than using metric.
The Metric System is not just another system of measurement, it's an
integrated system, one unit matches another. Example: 1 Liter water
= 1000 milliliters = 1000 grams. A construction plan lists a span of
28,000,000 mm which is visible to the reader as 28,000 meters or 28
km, choose your unit, no conversion is required, just move the
decimal place. Try 28 Million inches, or even 280 inches, it
requires some time to figure out the feet and inches which is
productivity lost. The US is a very productive nation but only
because we don't give everyone 6 weeks vacation every year.
The collapsed Hanger at Dulles Airport, Length 100 x 50 m. Snow
weighs 10% of rain. If we have 80 cm of snow, it's 8 mm of rain. 1
millimeter of rain is 1 liter per square meter or 1 kg per square
meter. Therefore the roof area of that hanger is 100x50=5000 m2
times 8 kg/m2 = 40,000 kg or 40 metric Tons (Tonnes) additional
load. I did not need a calculator. Our children waste approximately
one school year learning two systems and never really get to use one
of them. I could go on and on.
It might cost money to convert, but it cost much much more not to
convert. All US car manufacturers changed to metric design and
bolts, etc. in 1975, they found they saved money.
See http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/05/07/smallb1.html
Michael Payne
1 Thorton Court
Potomac Falls VA 20165
703 395 8975
