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Nick Pine wrote:
> 
> William R Stewart  <wstewart@patriot.net> wrote:
> >Nick Pine wrote:
> >> William R Stewart  <wstewart@patriot.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> ...I usually start by asking "Are you familiar with Ohm's law?"
> >> That filters out more than half of the "energy consultants" I've met,
> >> but asking this question is sometimes embarrassing all around...
> >
> >Because that is an electrical term, as opposed to a thermodynamic term.
> 
> Many people learn Ohm's law in high school, Will...
> I think an energy expert should be familiar with Ohm's law.
> To far too many people these days, "energy" = "electrical energy."
> 
> >Appropriate if you are talking to a PV consultant, but confusing otherwise.
> 
> Yes, Ohm's law is confusing to certain "energy consultants" :-)
> 
> >You are simply trying to make other people translate your way of thinking as
> >an EE.  Why not speak in thermodynamic terms, like the rest of the industry?
> 
> Perhaps we should ask 'em about enthalpy? :-)
> 
> >>Here's another litmus test for an energy expert: what will the average water
> >>temperature be inside a 4' cube full of water surrounded by 5 R20 foam walls,

etc...

Knowledge or at least abtractions like Ohms law could be 
usefull as well as skills in thermodynamics. This discussion is really
about positioning one self and has more to do with human nature than
with energy. And being said itself is allso an atempt to be smarter than
the rest of you. (Humans are we not?)

/Tore F