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----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 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----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
