Miles per Gallon

Re:Miles per Gallon by Khao on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:25AM (#9504530)

Thanks for that! Not being a native English speaker I couldn't really grasp what the author was trying to describe when he started talking about a "trough with a cross-sectional area of 0.1 mm2" and the following paragraph. This image made everything clear!

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Re:Miles per Gallon by unwind on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:44AM (#9504601)

This is probably the kind of trough that's meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_trough, detailed image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_trough#/media/File:Cat....

If you "think away" the actual trough and keep only the liquid, you get the cuboid that the text is referring to.

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Re:Miles per Gallon by kalleboo on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:21AM (#9504815)

The kind of trough imagined in the article is actually precedented - although to replenish water and not fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_pan

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