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[SFG75]

The winter of '32 and birth of Churchill were pretty good tid-bits of knowledge. Thanks for sharing!.

[chrisboy]

this is a fun read. thanks lab!

[Iced T]

Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.

Eat is the only word in the English language that can be re-arranged with the same letters into its past tense. Ate.

[Korean&Proud]

that one about the cruise ship moving only 6 inches for every gallon was kinda cool, alarming at the same rate. not that im an activist or anything but there has to be a more efficient way of doign things so as not to waste.

K&P

[mithril]

that one about the cruise ship moving only 6 inches for every gallon was kinda cool, alarming at the same rate. not that im an activist or anything but there has to be a more efficient way of doign things so as not to waste.

K&P

its not that much of a waste considering how much you are moving. just think if everyone bought their own jetski and how much gas it would take to move the same amount of people the distance. granted, there is still probably a better fuel source out there...

[Iced T]

Human BLOOD

[Korean&Proud]

its not that much of a waste considering how much you are moving. just think if everyone bought their own jetski and how much gas it would take to move the same amount of people the distance. granted, there is still probably a better fuel source out there...

true I guess I didnt think about it that way. and human blood lol? where'd that come from?

K&P

[Iced T]

Just kidding... or am I? Anyways, being a Merchant Mariner is one of my more enjoyable diversions and I mostly work on gas-turbine tankers. They are much cleaner and very efficient, but are notoriously expensive. They don't make much profit with that kind of overhead. FYI, the Queen Elizabeth 2 is 70,327 tons, 963 feet long, 105 feet wide. It has 32 feet of draft. It has a 25 - 28.5 knots cruising speed (maximum 32.5 knots). Service speed is achievable using only 7 of the 9 engines.

There is a problem though with the 1 gal/6 inch fact. This is on the website:

Fuel Consumption:

18.05 tons per hour, or 433 tons per day.

This is equal to six of the ship's swimming pools.

The ship's fuel oil tank capacity of 4,381.4 tonnes is sufficient for 10 days' sailing at 32.5 knots, equalling 7,800 miles.

One gallon of fuel will move the ship 49.5 feet; with the previous steam turbine engines, one gallon of fuel moved the ship 36 feet.

This is probably because of the variation of fuel usage between starting from a stop or cruising at 25 kts.