On Wed, 20 Dec 1995 BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM wrote:
> >The most important variable would be air resistance. You would use less
> >gas per mile at the lower car speed, because the energy needed to overcome
> >air resistance would be substantially less.
> >
> > Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> > Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> > gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
> >
> >
> >Just to keep this thing complicated, obviously those west of the Mississippi
>at
> higher altitude (thin air) get better mileage.
>
> Mike Leckstein(looking out the window at our end of fall blizzard.)
>
At high altitudes your mileage may drop because of the decrease in wind
resistance in the lower density air, but what is the effect of the lower
concentration of oxygen (say in g/l or in g/cubic ft) on engine efficiency?
Dirk
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