[Greenbuilding] Perceptions of Nature & Reality
RT
archilogic at yahoo.ca
Tue May 28 09:14:21 CDT 2013
On Mon, 27 May 2013 10:24:56 -0400, Norbert Senf <mheat at mha-net.org> wrote:
> Dollars tells me very little. If I burn dollar bills, $46 means I have a
> very efficient house, indeed.
>
It appears that Norbert has grown more rascally in his absence from this
List. Eh ?
I would further venture that a Canadian house that burns $46 in dollar
bills is not only very efficient, it would be much more efficient than an
American house that burns $46 in dollar bills, once again demonstrating
the arbitrariness and inutility of using "dollars" as a unit of energy
measurement.
"Oh yeah ? Why ?" you say, with an irritated sneer.
The smallest denomination of Canadian paper currency is a five-dollar
bill. ( Unless of course, Murricans only use tens and twenties to
burn)
But to get back to the point, Steve was arguing that the units for power,
energy,distance and time etc. were arbitrary contrivances not associated
with any natural events when in fact, the reality is that those units are
in fact based on very precise observations of natural phenomena and
quantify them with a high degree of accuracy allowing communication of
details globally irrespective of language, locale etc.
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Rob Tom AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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