On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 14:20:45 -0400
rickman  wrote:

> On 4/4/2017 5:47 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> >  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

 Yep 6 litres/100km or 6 million cubic millimetres per 100 million
millimetres then just do the division to get 0.06 square millimetres.

> auto uses is a square strip of fuel 0.245 mm on a side as long as your
> trip?

 Yep that's exactly the picture I have.

>  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.

 I'd not thought of it that way, nice point.

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