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It's a blog for general US public reading, I'm inclined to think the seriousstuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups so than regular folk in the US know what the tempretures are.


> I'm inclined to think the serious stuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups [...]

There are two photos in this article which show thermometers (search for "Temperature of the "), which clearly are in Fahrenheit (the scale goes from 20 to over 140, which would be from "comfortable room temperature" to "beyond boiling at normal pressure" if it were in Celsius), and both having a printed label "EACH LINE: 2°f" (with lowercase F for some reason) glued below them. So, at least for this water treatment plant, it seems to be using Fahrenheit for the instrumentation.


Application-specific industrial instrumentation probably sourced from USA. I'm sure all their scientific instruments are in Celsius.


It's the photos that confused me. They weren't even dual-marked in C and F, just in F


Fair point, but as SoftTalker observed in a peer comment there are two types of equipment, industrial grade HVAC heating cooling gear sourced from the US for living | working environmental control ( F ) and actual scientific equipment ( not shown in the photos I saw which were all of HVAC type gear and marked in F ).




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