Hi Pat:
My inclination is to make a very simple poster which tells/shows various
products and hints how to use/find metric products in grocery stores.
The purpose is to make the most people aware of what's available and what's
coming without being an overly complex distraction.
Groc
The company I work for puts out a daily message about the state of the
reservation system. Item 6 is often a bit of interesting information, not
necessarily related to the reservation system. Heres what the author (not
me, Im not a techie) wrote today.
Impressive, considering that there are
The KISS principle should be the basis of converting to/using metric.
A simple poster showing the most used units, such as mass (kg) and volume
(L), are most used in grocery stores.
Place posters in grocery stores first. It would get to the most people
very quickly.
However it
Howard, John Frewen-Lord, and John Steele,
I must have spent my life in an impoverished part of the U.S. Never have
I had an option as to which company should provide my electrical energy.
Currently I live in an area served by an electric cooperative, Caney
Fork. At one time they owned their
Jim:
In broad terms, the way it works here in the UK is that the central
government (equivalent to the federal government in the US, Canada and
Australia) owns the power stations, which then contract with National Grid
plc, who own the main overhead wires (either at 230 kV or 400 kV as they a
Jim, at least in NY, we have a choice of providers. We have to choose
one (or default to our existing provider) at the end of each year. The
utility companies own the wires but you contract with them or a
different company to provide the electricity (we have a same deal with
the gas). There are sev
Jim,
Many areas in the US have alternate providers (or the pretense of it). We have
it for both electric and natural gas.
The original company provides the distribution service, and levies a charge for
it. However, other companies set rates for electricity or gas and charge
consumers for the
First of all, I'm changing the subject line.
Second, John has said something here that intrigues me. How do you go
about changing your provider of electrical energy, John? Do you have to
connect your house to a different set of distribution wires? Or, if you
keep the connection the same, who
In the UK (and Oz will use broadly similar terminology), electricity comes from
things we call 'power stations'. My electricity is supplied by Scottish Power
(and no, I don't live in Scotland, they are just the provider - I can choose
between any number of providers).Having said that, most
Even at the correct and higher 14.4 kWh/day it will not make an appreciable
difference to the world, most of which is outside the southwest deserts anyway.
On the scale of the energy cost to make, install and maintain the panels, this
would be fad for the rich if the rest of the U.S. tax- and ra
Pat:
The terminology between the US and AU may be getting us into trouble. In the
U.S., nobody calls electricity generating facilities anything but POWER PLANTS.
What do they call them Down Under?
I hate the term "power plant" but my "electricity generating facility" is
awkward. Besides, power
I am in total agreement with your main point: it is too complex to use as a
metric week poster, and merely leads to arguing over the right-hand side, not
adoption of the left-hand side.
A metric week poster should cover Metric 101, not the entire SI. The left-hand
side has many units that th
600 W, 24/7 is 14.4 kWh/day. You guys get hosed on electricity. I pay
$0.12/kWh in the top tier, slightly less less for the first few kilowatt hours
per day.
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Harry Wyeth wrote:
From: Harry Wyeth
Subject: [USMA:45859] Solar panels (maybe off topic a tad)
To: "U.S. M
But 600 W (rounded off) of consumption, 24/7, is 8.64 kWh per day, or
259 weekly. At California rates of $0.24 per kWh (which many people pay
at only the third of five tiers of rates) that is $62 per month. Or
$745 per year. With tax credits and rebates, it doesn't take that long
to amortize
I am all for National Metric Week and posters, but the KISS (keep it
simple stupid) approach works best with most audiences. If we could
just get the population to deal with a FEW metric units, we would be 96%
of the way "there". If we could just institute the use of liters (and
mL) to measu
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