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Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric
New submitter Applehu Akbar writes: The good news is that for the first time in years, a candidate in the next presidential cycle has proposed completing our transition to the metric system. Though unfortunately it's Lincoln Chaffee, let's all hope that this long-standing nerd issue gets into the 2016 debate because of this. Warning: Lame CNN autoplaying video.
Metric is socialist! America beware!
One calorie??? Wait, isn't the SI unit of energy the joule?
Also, it should be noted that a cc of water doesn't "weigh" one gram, since the gram is a unit of mass, not of force. And even if we let you fudge on the mass/force units, a cc of water only "weighs" one gram at 4C. At other temps, its density is different.
Oh, and the hydrogen thing is only true if your "hydrogen" is pure protium, with no deuterium or tritium included. Alas, the Real World(tm) insists on the presence of deuterium unless you make major efforts to remove it.
As to your final question (How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?), it should be noted that local atmospheric pressure affects that (as it does in your "metric" example), which is why the phrase STP (Standard Pressure and Temperature) was invented. Note that at STP, one calorie will NOT increase the temp of a cc of water by 1C.
And all this ignores latent heat of vaporization (the energy required to transition from a liquid at the boiling point to a gas at the boiling point), which you didn't touch on at all in your learned (for values of learned more or less equal to "ignorant") comment.
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The Eurotrash think Canadians should use trains for everything too.
They just don't get it. We have states that could kick their countries ass.
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