Dogberry2;338992 Wrote: > Another way to save a tiny amount of energy: leave your car parked > outside instead of in the garage. That way you're driving about 30 feet > less every day, and saving a whole 0.01 ounces of gasoline. At the end > of just 200 years, you'd have saved almost a whole gallon of gas!
Dogberry2;339276 Wrote: > No. > I'm still hopeful that more people's children will grow up learning to > do simple, basic arithmetic, Lets do some simple arithmetic. There are about 6.25 lb of gasonline/gallen at 72 degrees F and there are 16 ounces/lb. So there are 100 ounces of gas/gal. If we save 0.01 ounce/person/day, it will take 10,000 days to save 1 gal/person. That is, it will 27.4 years (365-day-year ) to save 1 gal, not 200 years. With this, I'll let you do some simple arithmetic now. How much gas do we save a year if 1 million people park their cars as you suggested? Dogberry2;339276 Wrote: > .. and to have a vocabulary that includes the word "infinitesimal" and > a comprehension of its meaning. I know that -my- kids grew up with those > fundamentals, BTW, I am not a native English speaker so my English is not very good. But my 3rd grade teacher told me plurals are for counts greater than 1. So it should be 0.01 ounce, not 0.01 ounces. I am glad your kids are doing better than one of their parents. Dogberry2;339276 Wrote: > ..but personal observation indicates that many lack them. One doesn't > have to look very far .. No, we dont have to look very far! -- hawkins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hawkins's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52420
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