[USMA:49954] RE: NASCAR Subway 500

2011-02-28 Thread Carleton MacDonald
Thanks to incompetent cutting and pasting, it appears below that I wrote a sentence which I did not. Given the large-size font, I suspect someone other than Bill Hooper. Carleton From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: Monday, Februar

[USMA:49953] Re: Nuclear inches

2011-02-28 Thread Martin Vlietstra
This could be an attempt by Westinghouse to get commercial tie-in for the site. On the other hand, the words "Buncefield fuel depot, 2005" or "Flixborough disaster" are whispered into the ear of the British minister, the Westinghouse design might well be discounted. For the benefit of US readers,

[USMA:49952] RE: NASCAR Subway 500

2011-02-28 Thread Bill Hooper
On Feb 27 , at 11:31 PM, Carleton MacDonald wrote: > The race will be 312 laps, where each lap is a mile, thus the race is 312 > miles or 502.115 km. The race is not a true 500 km race. That's odd, isn't it. If they had made it 311 laps (1 mile each lap), the total distance would be 500.4 km

[USMA:49951] Teaching Metric

2011-02-28 Thread a-bruie...@lycos.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/voices/2011/02/cooking_can_teach_us_about_che.html Bruce E. Arkwright, JrErie PALinux and Metric User and EnforcerId 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

[USMA:49950] Re: Nuclear inches

2011-02-28 Thread John Frewen-Lord
As all construction in the UK is metric, I don't see how Westinghouse is going to be able to design a structure in imperial units. All UK engineering codes are metric (and limit states as well, which inherently are metric), and no engineer in the UK can design to these codes using non-metric ca

[USMA:49949] Re: Nuclear inches

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Payne
This is very interesting and shows the trouble all US companies face using two systems, this could be another Mars orbiter type of disaster years down the road if completed as designed. A friend told me South Africa is soliciting bids for another nuclear reactor, Westinghouse is also bidding on

[USMA:49948] Urgent - call your Senators this week.

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Williamson
*Urgent - call your Senators. The budget is being discussed in every senate office on the hill.* * * *If you live in Iowa, call Senator Harkin. He is the Chairman of the ** Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. **Please call Sen Harkins' of