#fuel consumption

[unbfacts]

The U.S. Navy estimates that heavy barnacle growth on ships can increase drag by up to 60%, leading to a 40% rise in fuel consumption.

[thekalpar]

My sibling made the mistake of recommending The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands to me on the logic that it has trains, I like trains, therefore I would like this book.

This book has driven me insane. Who are the characters? I can't tell you. What is the plot? I haven't the faintest? Is the book badly written? No. Absolutely not. But all of this has taken a secondary concern with my all-encompassing obsession with fuel consumption.

Let me explain.

So the backstory of the book is that some sort of incident made Siberia uninhabitable and China and Russia walled it off. Then for reasons known only to them the British built a railroad through the Wasteland. All of this setting for the plot and irrelevant, but my obsession will not let me stop talking about trains. God moves through me.

So let's be generous with the walls and assume the distance that has to be covered WITHOUT REFUELING is the 3,375 km distance between Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg. So let's see what sort of locomotive is pulling this thing.

Oh my god. What is that? What is that wheel arrangement? What is that boiler? WHAT IS THAT WHEEL ARRANGEMENT?

Okay, so from this we can conclude the train has two tenders, one for coal, one for water. Reasonable for a long-distance trip. Let's assume that these tenders have UP Big Boy capacity which means between the two a total of 56 tons of coal and 50,000 gallons of water. That may sound like a lot, but at full steam a Big Boy would eat through that supply in a matter of hours. Steam engines have hearty appetites. But! That gives us numbers to work with.

So let's assume the locomotive is extremely efficient. We'll go with the most fuel efficient locomotive ever built, the Red Devil. The Red Devil's fuel capacity was less than Big Boy's, but let's just be generous and give it two Big Boy tenders. Now we know the Red Devil could go 230 km on 12,600 gallons, which means 50,000 gallons gives us...920 km.

Okay, okay, they do stop to replenish water once in the book, and watering on the fly was a key technology. So let's just operate on the assumption that water isn't the limiting factor, coal is.

So looking at the Red Devil's efficiency again, we know its 20 ton load of coal lasted for 700 km. So if we give it 56 tons that takes us to...1960 km.

Out of 3,375 km.

Without refueling.

Can I tell you anything else about this book? No. My brain has been broken by logistics.

"But Kalpar, the train is secondary to the story. It's part of a literary metaphor. Is it really important to get bogged down in the minutiae?"

Yes

God moves through me and I have no choice. Trains have been put into a book and I must analyze them.

[victusinveritas]

[shiki-soku-ze-kuu]

小松→東京の往復旅。ガソリン無給油達成!! たまたま東京に行く用事がありまして、前日にガソリンを満タンにしました。猛暑の日が続いていたので、途中で給油かなとノンビリ高速を東京へ。池袋のPAで526,8km、平均燃費30.4km/L、平均速度66km。都内で用事(娘の不要荷物満載)をすませて帰路に着きます。 最初はどこかで給油かな〜っと思ってましたが、新潟くらいで燃料計の針がまだ二つ残っています、「こりゃ行けるか!」と悪魔のささやき。 疲れに加えて睡魔も襲って来て、コックリしかけた瞬間!ピーと燃料警告燈が点灯、眠気も吹き飛びました。場所は新潟と富山の県境、越中境PA付近。ナビによれば残り179kmぐらい、頭の中で必死に計算します、いままでの経験から残り8Lのガソリン残量として、8×28km/Lで224km走れる予想です。渋滞なければ大丈夫と楽観してたら、高速道路リニューアル工事で渋滞してますと、不吉な表示板、二箇所の渋滞を耐え抜いて、無事に金沢西インター到着。国道に入ったらこっちのものです、GSスタンド一杯あります。いつも入れてる宇佐美の8号松任店にゴールしました。 総走行距離1123,2km 平均燃費28km/L 平均速度52km 給油量41,65L 実燃費26,96km/L 残燃料6,35L(推定値) OD332778km 三代目プリウス後期型　完全ノーマル タイヤEP100 空気圧2.5kPa エアコンON 33万キロ走っているプリウスです、月まで走って買い換えます。

[stevemaclellan]

Canadians Are World's Biggest Gas Guzzlers: Report

We love our pickup trucks and SUVs, more so than any other people.

Canada's drivers emit the most carbon per kilometre driven in the world, and it's due to our taste for SUVs and pickup trucks, according to research from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

An IEA study released earlier this spring found that the passenger vehicles on Canada's roads emit 206 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre driven, higher than the second-place U.S., at 198 grams per kilometre, and about 50 per cent higher than many Western European countries.

[pointless-letters]

"Needless to say, I had the last laugh."

[taabiai2]

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[chickabouttown]

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