Remember, these articles are written by journalists, not scientists or
engineers.  If they are unsure of how to convert metric units to imperial
they leave the metric units untouched rather than get loads of e-mails
explaining their errors to them. 

-----Original Message-----
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Of Carleton MacDonald
Sent: 30 November 2008 02:40
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:42091] RE: Great idea --- weird combo of units


It's actually amazing The Telegraph mentioned metric units at all!

cm

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 19:25
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:42088] Great idea --- weird combo of units


This idea looks to have lots of potential!

 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/3535012/Ocean-curren
ts-can-power-the-world-say-scientists.html

Just a shame that they had to throw "knots" in there!

Ezra

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