16 March 2006
23/5 part duex
As posted on 8-Jan-06:
"start and stop often, so with gas prices at their current level it is so progressive of the city to make us use more gas."
This remains true to this day. The speed humps remain on the streets that I would drive daily if I did not have an alternate route. But the last part of the post leads me to another thought.
There are some in this country that follow the racing series Formula 1. In F1 this year they have institued a next qualification process. I could expound on it here but other already have and you can read about it here if your fancy runs that way. The crux of the matter is that the final stint of qualifying is an exercise in fuel wasting.
The ten fastest cars from the previous round of qualifying have 20mins to set the fast time. The rub is that they must start the 20mins with the amount of fuel that they want to start the race with. So in order to get the fastest time you want the smallest amount of fuel in the car as possible. For example, each lap of Bahrain requires 2.75kg of fuel. If you put enough fuel in your car to run 15 laps then you have 41.25kgs of fuel on board. So you run around the track burning off fuel to get to next to nothing so that you can have the lightest car possible and therefor go as fast as possible. Needless to say this wastes fuel like no one's business. But then again auto (Kate says that I pronounce it otto) racing is essentially a waste of all kinds of resources for the sake of entertainment.
Oh well, I suppose all the speed humps in the world would not equal the amount of fuel wasted in auto racing. ¶ 20:21
"start and stop often, so with gas prices at their current level it is so progressive of the city to make us use more gas."
This remains true to this day. The speed humps remain on the streets that I would drive daily if I did not have an alternate route. But the last part of the post leads me to another thought.
There are some in this country that follow the racing series Formula 1. In F1 this year they have institued a next qualification process. I could expound on it here but other already have and you can read about it here if your fancy runs that way. The crux of the matter is that the final stint of qualifying is an exercise in fuel wasting.
The ten fastest cars from the previous round of qualifying have 20mins to set the fast time. The rub is that they must start the 20mins with the amount of fuel that they want to start the race with. So in order to get the fastest time you want the smallest amount of fuel in the car as possible. For example, each lap of Bahrain requires 2.75kg of fuel. If you put enough fuel in your car to run 15 laps then you have 41.25kgs of fuel on board. So you run around the track burning off fuel to get to next to nothing so that you can have the lightest car possible and therefor go as fast as possible. Needless to say this wastes fuel like no one's business. But then again auto (Kate says that I pronounce it otto) racing is essentially a waste of all kinds of resources for the sake of entertainment.
Oh well, I suppose all the speed humps in the world would not equal the amount of fuel wasted in auto racing. ¶ 20:21
