On Friday 26 January 2007 22:43, Bill Hooper wrote:
> > If that's too big or too small, there are others, like petajooules
> > (PJ) and zetajoules (ZJ) and more that are appropriately and
> > conveniently larger or smaller. (I don't know which one to suggest
> > to use in place of your suggested "cubic mile of oil" because
> > nowhere in your article did you specify how much energy there is in
> > a cubic mile of oil.)
A quick calculation with the units program says it's on the order of 100 EJ:
You have: (mile3)*(0.9 g/ml)*(37 kJ/g)
You want: EJ
* 138.80045
/ 0.0072045873
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