"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:52:33 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

I just spent some time reading the extensive analysis

Consider how much gasoline it takes to totally demolish
a car in an accident, reforming all of that sheet metal.
Consider how much energy it took to form that sheetmetal
in the first place .... they have to compare a bit G.
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Cliff

That's actually a high-school physics problem: 4,000 pounds of stuff going
from 60 mph to zero...how many gallons of gasoline is that equivalent to?

You can use 130 mJ (or 125,000 Btu) as a round number for the energy in a
gallon of gasoline.

And the number is...[c'mon, we're waiting g]

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Ed Huntress