Radio broadcast in some EU countries say kilopascal or hectopascal in my limited experience.
While writing this, USMA members might enjoy to read this exchange: A blogger objected to my use of the unit joule, and wrote: "Usage of electricity on my bill is in KWH not Joules, my light bulbs and all my appliances are rated in watts. Fortunately some of us do not live in a UN/EURO science imposed SI system, although I remember many years ago some bureaucrats in Washington were insisting we must convert to SI, it never happened and all the bad impact claims on the economy never happened either." My answer: "For your education, the watt is a unit of ANY energy flow and it is named watt not Watt. There was Watt, James Watt, and there is our honorable Anthony Watt. Also, your bill is not in KWH but in kWh (check it), which is metric and accepted into the remnants of the U.S. medieval system. And yes, it is incorrect to say “1150 megawatts of electricity,” a junior-high subject to learn to distinguish. Were the joule already in common use everybody would be distinguishing energy and power (which is energy rate) as handily as distance and speed (which is distance rate). Energy topics are debated and written about as much as the election topics today, often by units-ignorant writers, which adds to misunderstandings. Let Joule, poor chap, sleep in peace." On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Michael Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > Conversion is not helped by the news media converting metric to what they > perceive the audience wants. I’ve noticed here in France how many Brits use > yards and stones for body mass. Only to find out recently the BBC style > guide recommends everything be given this way. When you cannot get away > from the yards and stones on TV it’s not surprising people are confused. I > have to keep asking people who quote their mass in stones to tell me what > that might be in kilo’s as I have no correlation for Stones. > > On the subject of TV and computer monitor screen sizes, here in France > it’s in centimetres in the store and on store displays along with the > inches. But if you live here and want to get a battery replaced the apple > website gives only inches even in French. Annoying, I did not remember what > size my screen size was, had to measure it in centimetres and convert to > find what I owned and what it would cost. > > Mike Payne > > > > On 24 Oct 2016, at 03:26, [email protected] wrote: > > > > "The Metric System didn't catch on in the United States, except in > really annoying ways. For example, there's a hypothetical pair of fake > diamond stud earrings online. Their diameter is noted in Millimeters." > Kristen Petry in the Naples FL Herald > > > > It is Petry who is out of touch. I have noticed a decided increase in > the use of metric units on television, not only on news programs but also > on the home-shopping networks. Jewelry is now given in millimeter > measurements, as are men's and women's watches. That has surprised me > because computer screen sizes are still given in inches instead of > centimeters. For example, a common laptop size is given as 15.7 inches. > Obviously, that is 40 centimeters "dumbed down." > > > > I have confidence that this hodgepodge will all be straightened out > sooner than most people imagine. The impact of international commerce and > technology, which is metric, is strong and will overcome mindless > opposition without a pointless fight, as we had in the 1970s and early > 1980s. > > > > By the way, Jim (Frysinger), I recall the situation with the U.S. Metric > Board exactly as you did. The board was pointless. It operated like the > United Nations: all talk and no action. Better to get the government > hindrance out of the way and let commerce rule the day. Essentially, this > is what the Metric Act stated. Its establishment of metric as the > primarily measurement system was based primarily on commercial needs. > --Martin Morrison, Metric Today > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > USMA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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