At 11:29 PM 3/21/2009, Mike wrote: >I heard once that a gallon of gasoline has the approx. the same >power as a stick of dynamite....... Well, a *cup* of gasoline contains as much *energy* as about *four* pounds of high explosive, but because the rate of burning is so much slower, a cup of gasoline mixed in air only delivers *power* at a rate of about 3 gigawatts (still pretty respectable), while the high explosive gives you 200+ gigawatts. So it's kinda apples and oranges. Ref: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/energies.htm -- he did the numbers so I could give you a reasonably quantitative answer without doing all that nasty work. :-)
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