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s/cars/container ships/ 40 rods to the hogshead is 0.00198 miles per gallon (or 504 gallons per mile). Actually that is low even for a container ship but it is
by tzs 3y ago
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40 rods to the hogshead is 0.00198 miles per gallon (or 504 gallons per mile). Actually that is low even for a container ship but it is at least in the same ballpark.
I prefer to give fuel efficiency in fuel used for a given distance rather than distance for a given amount of fuel.
My car's fuel efficiency is 23 picoacres or 9.3 picohectares.
- tenthirtyam 3y agoUseful XKCD here regarding weird units: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ TLDR; "If you took all the gas you burned on a trip and stretched it out into a thin tube along your route, 0.1 square millimeters would be the cross-sectional area of that tube."
- pavel_lishin 3y agoPoint of order, neither acres nor hectares are a measure of distance.
- tzs 3y agogallons/mile or liters/km are volume/length. Volume units are length^3. Thus we end up with length^2.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI stand happily corrected!
- hnuser123456 3y agoFor more human-friendly numbers, 20 miles per gallon = 0.14 mm^2. 30 mpg = 0.09 mm^2.
- hnuser123456 3y agoAnd I guess the realistic interpretation of this is the cross section of a tube of gasoline that was laid down the road that could keep your engine fed without a tank.
- Y_Y 3y agoEven better you can replace your fuel injector with a scoop at the front of the car and drive forward along the fuel tube for a sort of JIT fuelling option.
- Y_Y 3y agoPardon me, but I believe this would be a "point of information" (aka request) rather than a "point of order" which should refer to a procedural matter rather than factual. For reference of course I would refer you to Robert's Rules of Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1zxPRRf4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1zxPRRf4g