Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 In 1969, I was doing first year physics with a view of entering the school of engineering at the University of Zambia the following year when I came across a quotation from Lord Kelvin which has stayed with me to this day. He was an Irish and British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824 and said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.” The unavailability of daily statistics from ZESCO on power production, and its imports and exports, or expression of numbers according to Lord Kelvin’s terminology, has led to “knowledge of a meager and unsatisfactory […]
The Myth about Chinese Machines at Kariba North Bank Power Station
