From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 8:35: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE48D37B9C8 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA57962; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:34:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Jamie Bowden Cc: David Scheidt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Mar 2000 17:34:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jamie Bowden's message of "Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:55:54 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bowden writes: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > > Internal combutstion engines aren't 100% efficient at extracting chemical > > energy from fuel. If you can increase this efficency by steps that reduce > > the potential energy to be extracted, it is possible to have a net gain. > Son instead of extracting roughly 70% of whatever caloric (or BTUs for > those who measure in such a fashion) content say 89 cotane normally > provides, I'm now extracting 70% of a lesser sum? No, you're extracting 80% of a lesser number, which may still be larger than 70% of the greater number. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message