On 4/4/2017 5:47 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:53:15 -0400
> Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>
>>  And miles per gallon makes a more meaningful measure to me than
>> liters per km. {I have half a tank [10 gallons]: how far will that get
>> me? Lot easier to do 10 * MPG than to work out an inverse [approximating
>> 4l per gal] 40/l/km}
>
>  My car's average fuel consumption is 0.06 square millimetres, or 6
> litres per 100km or about 47mpg (imperial) or about 39mpg (US) - all but
> the first and last are easy enough for me to work with, but if I want to
> know how far I can go with what remains in the tank then I can just look at
> the display on the dashboard which tells me.

How do you measure fuel consumption in square millimeters?  Well, I
guess I get that.  It is volume divided by distance.  So the fuel your
auto uses is a square strip of fuel 0.245 mm on a side as long as your
trip?  Funny to picture in your mind.  My truck would have a strip about
0.35 mm on a side.  It it weren't burnt to CO2 and H2O that would add up
pretty quickly on the highways.  Gives you some perspective about how
much we pollute our environment.

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Rick C

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