[Gllug] [OT] Technobabble

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 21 November, 2005 12:30 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
>
>    I have heard a (possibly incorrect) claim that the amount of energy
> required to build a car is comparable to the amount of energy required to
> power the car through its expected lifetime. Perhaps it depends on the
> mean
> time between impacts, together with the proportion of time spent in low
> gear
> while negotiating speed limits, sleeping policemen, and potholes.
>

If we are talking orders of magnitude quite possibly correct. Assume that
you can get 8 miles for every pound spent on petrol then a £10,000 car
would have to go 80,000 miles.

I know there are sevearl books' worth of assumptions behind that extremely
crude calculation, but...

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