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  ♽  ☯  ♑
>
>
>
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