At 12:00 PM 5/15/2008, Curtis Burisch wrote: snip
>As for synthetic petrol, snip >Don't believe me? No. >Energy density of petrol (per kilogram) 45,000.00 kJ / kg >Density of petrol 737.22 kg / m^3 >Energy density of petrol (per litre) 33,174.90 kJ / L >Metric/imperial conversion factor 0.26417 gallons / L >Energy density of petrol (per gallon) 125,580.66 kJ / gallon >Cost per kilojoule ( == kWh) (hypothetical) $0.01 $ / kJ >Price per gallon (hypothetical) $1,255.81 $ / gallon You dropped a factor of 3600 going from kjoule (kwatt second) to kWh Which brings the price down to 35 cents a gallon. Don't feel bad about it, Jordan Kare caught an error almost this big in something I did recently. Keith _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
