I only need one house, you live in yours....
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Jan 30, 2013 03:20:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: Back in the late 1970s, when I was living in Canada, I worked for a home >builder who tried to do just this (in fact I was part of the conversion >program). > >It failed of course, simply because (a) the Canadian building code for >residential was highly prescriptive, and didn 't allow for such variations as >stud spacing, thickness, etc, and changing to a performance code, was (at >the time) a step too far; and (b) virtually all of the Canadian >manufacturers were highly geared to the American market, and weren 't >prepared to manufacture what for them were relatively small quantities of > 'oddball ' sizes (rational metric though they may have been). > >The idea is great - but are you ever going to be able to make a whole >industry switch en masse? > >Great if you can, but I am not holding my breath. > >John F-L > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:16 PM >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:52288] Metric Home > >Here is my version of how a Metric House would look like.... >http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Metric-House/ > >Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr >Erie PA >Linux and Metric User and Enforcer > > >I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar >energy have you collected today? >Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope >we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish >I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison ♽ ☯ ♑ > > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6049 - Release Date: 01/21/13 >Internal Virus Database is out of date. > >
