Every time I drive my car, I think, "I can't believe a liquid fuel has the energy to move this entire vehicle, all the stuff I have in the back (clean runners, reams of paper, a box of zippers I really need to give away - does anyone want $1500 in zippers?, pokemon cards, lego fragments, child boosters, Lee Valley catalogues and Applied Arts magazine, two coffee cups, pens, Tim Hortons recycling, and my spare bad-hair-day headsweats cap) and shove it up the Malahat Highway at .... um.. exactly 80km/hr, the posted limit. How can there be that much kinetic energy in a little spritz of fuel ignited by a spark plug?
Then I think about the noise of the wind outside the car, the buzz of tires on road, how much my car shakes when a transport trucks whips by the other way and I think that despite the incredible output of energy from petroleum, we must be wasting incredible amounts of it! I'm setting aside concerns about pollution and just thinking - what would it be like to suck every possible ounce of kinetic and potential energy out of a tank of gas?
I already have some ideas. Will post soon. Got to get back to UBC unisuits right now.
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Interesting.... too bad you couldn't find your keys and didn't have room in the front seat for me this morning.
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ReplyDeleteWhat would it be like to suck that energy out of a tank of gas? Yeah, what would it be like just sucking that stuff in, or say, sniffing it up, yeah, a whole tank of gas, man, AWESOME!!!!
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