Subject: SI stuff

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Dec 1996 23:15:26 GMT

>BTU? Lbs? F? PSI?
>This is all ABACADABRA to me.
>Try J, kg, K, N/m^2. Those are the SI Units.
>
>arie veltman

Ok,  4.2 Kjoules required to raise 1 Kg water 1 deg C at approx 101.3 Kpa

In North America, 99.5% of the "real world" involved with steam generation uses Btu's, Lbs, deg F

K. Jones

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Norton)
Date: 8 Dec 1996 02:27:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...
>In North America, 99.5% of the "real world" involved with steam generation 
uses Btu's, Lbs, deg F

I am a physics major who once designed high-tech transformers.  I was trained
in MKS units (SI) in school.  However, when I went to buy transformer cores, 
they were in CGS units (centimeters, grams, seconds).  I learned the CGS units, 
and resolved to forevermore use the units used by the practitioners of a 
technology.  For steam in the English-speaking world, this is pounds, etc.

It's just easier.

  - Mike Norton

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From: "Duane C. Johnson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 11:42:12 -0800

> technology.  For steam in the English-speaking world, this is pounds, etc.

I completly agree with you Mike. It is futal to buck the system.

BTW I enjoy using MathCad for calculations. They have a completly
transparent way of converting units in any system. In fact you
can mix units if you wish.

Good Luck!

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From: Nick Eyre <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 21:21:58 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>, "Duane C. Johnson"
<[email-masked]> writes
>> technology.  For steam in the English-speaking world, this is pounds, etc.

Sorry to disillusion you.  No-one under 40 in Britain knows what a BTU
is.  You mean the American speaking world.

-- 
Nick Eyre

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Rayner)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:39:27 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Mike Norton) says:

     < Whole bunch of stuff snipped >

Reminds me of the Newton Meter torque wrenches, when all the manuals used 
Kg meters as a unit.  Most mechanics were baffled by the Newton back in 
the sixties.  Most thought it was an apple!
-- 
Steve. 

******************Knowledge is wasted if it is not shared.*******************

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From: [email-masked] (Neil Cordwell)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 15:29:11 +0100

> In North America, 99.5% of the "real world" involved with steam generation
In Europe 99.5% of the "real world" involved with steam generation uses
SI units

Neil

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From: Kevin Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 20:43:24 -0800

> In Europe 99.5% of the "real world" involved with steam generation uses

Fine, but the gentleman I was replying to was from North America, used
BTU's, deg F, etc in his question, so I replied in same.
  I didn't know I was required to convert and list all values in every
system (grin)

K. Jones