RE: oh well!(kaboom)

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.kettering.edu>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jeffrey J. Goggin wrote:

> Actually, this sounds a bit low to me ... after all, one gallon of gas will
> propel one ton of car 40 miles or more!  ;^)

But if you remember your physics, if you don't raise or lower an object, 
no work has been done.  :-)

Gasoline is 19,000 (roughly) BTU/gal or BTU/lbmass.  I think it is 
lbmass.  Bob Myers, you should know that.  Help me out here.

Later,
Graydon D. Stuckey

"There's alot more to Jazz than just wrong notes"