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1 bushel of soy beans = 60 lbs
1 bushel of corn = 56 lbs
1 metric ton of wheat = 37 bushels

to produce a barrel of oil from shale requires about 4.25 barrels of water,
(derived from NYT 5 Mar 74 story asserting that to produce 100,000 barrels
per year would require 20,000 acre feet per year)

Gosper algorithm for pi
c←5;b←8;r←1;
loop: c←4096c+(42r+5)b; b ← 8b ((2r+1)/(r+1))↑3; r ← r+1;
The approximation is 2↑(12r-8)/c.
Each trip around the loop gives 6r-1 bits.

Energy content of fuels
   fuel		Kjoule/g	Kjoule/cc
Hydrogen	124.7		8.7
Methanol	 20.1		15.9
Gasoline	 44.3		30.9
Hydride	VH3	  4.7		28.4
Coal C28H42	 32.2		41.8
Wood C.32H.40O.22 17.5		14.2
H2 gas		124.7		  .0010
methane gas	 61.1		  .0044

Cost of fuels
    fuel	source		cost/10**6 Kjoule
Gasoline	crude oil		1.00
Methanol	nat. gas		1.49
		coal			1.40
		lignite			1.18
methane		wellhead		 .14-.37
		LNG imported		 .76-.95
		coal			 .76-.95
hydrogen gas	nat. gas		 .92
		coal			1.25
liquid hydrog.				2.37
	Gasoline at $0.118/gal. nat gas at $0.40 per 1000 cu ft.
coal at $7/ton or $0.25/million Kjoule. Lignite at $2/ton or
$0.25/million Kjoule.  Science 28 Dec 1973 - T.B. Reed and R. M. Lerner
SOME RANDOM USEFUL FACTS
40,000 miles interstate highway, 100,000 county and state,
3,000,000 surfaced

11x10↑9 cost per yr from accidents.
If everyone had $4K per yr, then 19% increase in cars.
Robert Hemmes, Urban Mass Transportation, Office of Research

Godel lemma from Montague - Syntactical treatments of modality with
corollaries on reflexion principles and finite axiomatizability.
lemma 1. If T is a theory in which all one-place recursive functions
of natural numbers are functionally numerable, α if a formula of T
whose only free variable is u, and E is a one-place recursive function
of expressions, then there is a sentence β of T such that
{It is provable in T} β ≡ α(numeral-form(g.n(E(β)))).

Q. What is Life? - A. 2 or 3 to survive, 3 to be born.

BATCH 0500 PUB MENTAL <cr> while logged in as f75,jmc

"General John Cocke of Bremo, Virginia, a well-to-do planter of
old family, who dominated the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia for thirty-three years, led the demand for nation-wide
prohibition, and was elected president of the American Temperance
Union in 1836."

Boorstin - The Americans - the National Experience, p. 214.

World's water 333x10↑6 cubic miles = 1.388x10↑9 cubic km
		97% in oceans
		 2% in ice
		  .65% not in oceans or ice
		  of remainder more than half more than half mile deep
		10↑6 cubic miles accessible ground water
		.01% = 33,000 cubic miles in lakes and rivers
		.001% in atmosphere