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"The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi.
According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure
at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi."
Who the **** says "pounds psi"?
First, basic grammer dictates that it's PSI (if not P.S.I.). Second, the
P *stands for* pounds, idiot! :-P
Now don't get me wrong, but this whole document seems very heavy on
scary words like "gaping wound" and "deadly toxic chemicals", and a
little light on facts. So I'm not too concerned just yet...
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Invisible wrote:
> Who the **** says "pounds psi"?
Someone talking to an audience that doesn't know what "psi" means?
What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
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C# - a language whose greatest drawback
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On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
>
1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> "The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi.
> According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure
> at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi."
> Who the **** says "pounds psi"?
"Pounds Per Square Inch." Isn't it rather obvious?
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>> Who the **** says "pounds psi"?
>
> Someone talking to an audience that doesn't know what "psi" means?
Then why not just write "pounds per square inch"? Or just "PSI"? If you
don't know what it means, adding "pounds" doesn't really help.
> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
x Pascals = x Newtons/square meter.
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Stephen <mca### [at] aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
> > What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
> >
> 1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
Isn't it confusing that "pound" is both a unit of mass and of force?
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On 08/07/2010 6:28 PM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aoldotcom> wrote:
>> On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
>>>
>
>> 1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
>
> Isn't it confusing that "pound" is both a unit of mass and of force?
>
Not to native English speakers.
If you want to differentiate between them then you will say pound-force
(speakers of technical English only).
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Stephen
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Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aoldotcom> wrote:
>> On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
>>>
>
>> 1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
>
> Isn't it confusing that "pound" is both a unit of mass and of force?
I believe that "stone" is actually the unit of weight. But given that the
word was likely created before people understood there's a difference, and
given that "pounds" is always the same force in Earth's gravity field, and
given that it doesn't really get used in the scientific field where you wind
up in situations where mass and force are actually important to distinguish,
... no, I don't think so.
So when the instruction book for your car tells you how much pressure to put
in your tires, do they really say "put 206,000 newtons of pressure in your
tires"?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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On 08/07/2010 6:34 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Stephen <mca### [at] aoldotcom> wrote:
>>> On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>>> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
>>>>
>>
>>> 1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
>>
>> Isn't it confusing that "pound" is both a unit of mass and of force?
>
> I believe that "stone" is actually the unit of weight. But given that
> the word was likely created before people understood there's a
> difference, and given that "pounds" is always the same force in Earth's
> gravity field, and given that it doesn't really get used in the
> scientific field where you wind up in situations where mass and force
> are actually important to distinguish, .... no, I don't think so.
>
Just out of interest (possibly) when I was at school we were taught
about the SI units but did our hard sums in pounds-force, foot pounds
and even BTU’s. But as Andrew said, I’m an old guy with grey hair.
> So when the instruction book for your car tells you how much pressure to
> put in your tires, do they really say "put 206,000 newtons of pressure
> in your tires"?
>
Measured in Bars I believe.
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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