Dear John,
Apparently the word, gallon, is from the Old Norde French. See
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gallon
I don't think that Bishop John Wilkins used the old King Alfred the Great
standardised decimal measures to guide his decimal divisions for his "universal
measure". I am mo
It's the USDA. They are the organization that DOESN'T require metric net
contents on standard weight packages of meat, unlike nearly all other foods,
which must be dual, Customary and metric. What do you expect.
Of course, I also blame Congress for writing the bad law that lets them off the
h
MPGe is miles per gallon, equivalent, a new rating scheme by the EPA for
electric and other technology vehicles not using gasoline or diesel.
The article is about the Tesla Roadster (not Roaster, as in the article) and
its
rating. I understand why they chose kilowatt-hours per hundred miles (it
Of course. if the power plant was powered by solar or wind power, electric
cars become much more practical.
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of John M. Steele
Sent: 24 June 2011 11:41
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:50733] Tesla
This AP article uses only metric units, though the quantity is muddled.
They speak of rotating the Hunley by 800 mm to 1000 mm in 2 mm
increments. Obviously they are speaking of the tangential displacement
at the radius of the hull, not an angular displacement.
Jim
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2
