Re: Americans: that clueless cretin you elected just killed the CVE program :-(

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

I don't see why. Consider how your weather report gives readings for
atmospheric pressure: if it were to be 'practical' by analogy with
temperature, then the scale would have zero correspond to normal
atmospheric pressure, while high-pressure systems would have positive
numbers in their centres, and low-pressure ones negative numbers in
theirs.

Normal atmospheric pressure is 1 bar absolute, or 1000mB. That's a nice even number and is
very convenient.

What you propose is to measure in gauge pressure nominal rather than absolute pressure,
which is fine too.
--scott


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