[PLUG-TALK] Units - Re: Kilowatt hours

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:15:17PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote:
> I guess you didn't grow up in farm country.  Bushel is the traditional 
> unit of measurement for grain crops.  I believe $/bushel and 
> bushels/acre are still in common use.

And then there is the "slug".  A friend once asked for a slug of
small screws, in his mind a handful.  The actual definition is
a mass that accelerates at one foot per second squared with one
pound of force applied, that is, a slug of something has a mass
of 32.17405 pounds-mass or 14.5939 kg.  Either that, or a small,
slimy, and overly numerous creature with a predilection for beer.
Either those, or a mollusc.

Keith

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