On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:07:20AM +0200, Bo Pedersen wrote: > Hvis det er sandt er en anden maade at sige det paa at omregne det til > liter: 6000 m3 = 6000.000 liter. Saa hvis man kun bruger det til at > pumpe oel ud med kan man pumpe 6000.000 liter ud og selv hvis man > karbonerer kunstigt bruger man 3 voluminer + 1 til at pumpe ud med, > altsaa 4, saa er det kun 1500.000 liter oel. Jeg plejer at sige at der > er et livs forbrug i en CO2 beholder, men det her kraever da vist mere > end et liv. Kan det virkeligt passe?
1500.000 liters is about 75.000 kegs. If you make (and drink!) 50 kegs a year (one a week), that is 150 years. Of course there are losses involved in the process. I bet a good amount of CO2 fizzles out of the tap, some is tied up by the foamy head that will dissipate before long... When a keg is empty, it still has 20 liters of CO2 at some pressure, which will be let out when cleaning the keg... So yes, about one lifetime sounds reasonable ;-) Maybe someone here knows how many liters of beer do the commercial outlets pump with one bottle of CO2? -- Heikki Levanto LSD - Levanto Software Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
