[Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice

[Brian Casteel]

To support Jim's statement, I offer info from the proverbial horse's mouth:

http://www.qe2.org.uk/engine.html

Specifically, the following:

What is the fuel consumption?
At the service speed of 28.5 knots, consumption is 380 tons per day: this 
equates to 50 ft/gall.

And from the useless trivia department:

Why do Engineer Officers wear gold stripes with purple?
When the Titanic sank, all engineers went down with the ship. King George V 
decreed that the Royal Purple will be worn from that date on.

Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Scotti" <jscotti@pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice


> Instead of waiting for Brian, I did my own google search and found the
> following website:
>
> http://www.cunard.com/onboard/default.asp?OB=QE2&Sub=sp&SubSubSection=TechInfo
>
> It says that the QE2 gets 49.5 feet per gallon.
>
> Jim.
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jim Scotti wrote:
>
>> Ok Brian, you're going to have to do another google search, 'cause this
>> number just doesn't make sense!  At 6 inches to the gallon, it would take 
>> the
>> QE2 over 21 MILLION gallons to make a 2000 mile voyage.  If it had to 
>> carry
>> that much fuel, it would probably get 6 inches to the gallon.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Gale wrote:
>>
>> > And when I told that in chat (elsewhere) to someone, they told me that
>> > the QE2 gets 6 inches to the gallon. More useless trivia I will never
>> > forget. Lol
>> >
>>
>> Jim Scotti
>> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
>> University of Arizona
>> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
>>
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> Jim Scotti
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