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Re: 300 miles 70 mph 30 mpg :)

To: BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM
Subject: Re: 300 miles 70 mph 30 mpg :)
From: Dirk de Boer <deboer@duke.usask.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:46:30 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995 BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM wrote:

> >The most important variable would be air resistance.  You would use less
> >gas per mile at the lower car speed, because the energy needed to overcome
> >air resistance would be substantially less. 
> >
> >   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> >                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> >                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910
> >
> >
> >Just to keep this thing complicated, obviously those west of the Mississippi 
>at 
> higher altitude (thin air) get better mileage. 
> 
> Mike Leckstein(looking out the window at our end of fall blizzard.)
> 
At high altitudes your mileage may drop because of the decrease in wind 
resistance in the lower density air, but what is the effect of the lower 
concentration of oxygen (say in g/l or in g/cubic ft) on engine efficiency?

Dirk


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