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Boating Factoid I found today....
Yea, that sounds like BS. They probably use a heavy fuel oil like bunker C,
and the whole fuel mileage thing sounds way off. -- Keith __ A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. "Jim Hollenback" wrote in message ... Larry W4CSC ) wrote: : The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel : that it burns. I find that really, really hard to beleive. Lets see, 5280 feet per mile, that is 10,560 gallons per mile. For a trip across the Atlantic of, what ?, 3600 miles?, that is 38,016,000 gallons. At 6 pounds or so per gallon, that is 114,048 *tons* of fuel. Another way to look at it, for 38,000,000 gallons of fuel at, say $0.90 per gallon, that is around $34,200,000 to fuel that beast. If you carry 2000 passenagers, that is $17,000 per passenger just for the fuel. Naw, someone is jerking your chain Larry. : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- : I didn't even know it was diesel powered......??? Who says you can't burn diesel in boilers? -- Jim Hollenback, NK6L my opinion. |
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