Dear All, I have just responded to an article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/8395460/Energy-bills-what-the-jargon-means.html as follows:
## You write "Kilowatt hours – the standard measurement on an energy bill". This is not so. Since 1889 the standard measuring unit for energy has been the joule with the symbol J. The joule was named by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to recognise the research work on energy done by James Maxwell Joule, a brewer from Salford in Lancashire. The joule is the only measuring unit needed for all the different kinds of energy in the world (kilojoules for food energy, megajoules for household electricity, gigajoules and terajoules for nuclear reactors, and so on). Since 1889, the alternatives are to use joules to measure energy or to use one of the old pre-1889 loosely defined words associated with energy. I know about 199 of these old words but my favourite is the 'barrel of oil equivalent' that refers to an oil barrel that never actually existed! Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia ## Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
