That's 600,000 coconuts if you wanted to power all 4 engines, with a 20/80 mix.
It's even more crazy if you needed 1,200,000 coconuts to power 4 engines with a 40/60 mix. How much land and time do you need to be able to produce 1,200,000 coconuts?
This only shows how inefficient jet engines are. Here we are trying to save a couple of gallons of gas in our cars, but airplanes (both commercial and military) need to step up and make it a more efficient way to travel.
--It's even more crazy if you needed 1,200,000 coconuts to power 4 engines with a 40/60 mix. How much land and time do you need to be able to produce 1,200,000 coconuts?
133.33 acres for 1 year(see above coconut data) coconut math FTW!
@jmiday, thanks! We posted at the same time. It's great that you did the calculations, and that's just a ridiculous amount of coconuts just to fly 230 km (or about 144 miles).
A fully loaded 747 weighs nearly a million pounds and can carry more than 400 people and a pile of cargo at more than 500mph. You're gonna burn a lot of fuel moving that much mass at that speed, there's no way around it.
The fuel consumption sounds obscene, but if you compare it to 400 individual cars and SUVs traveling the same distance it looks a lot more favorable. Particularly when you factor in that the plane can travel in a straight line from point A to point B, and doesn't sit idling in traffic.
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150,000 coconuts for 1 of 4 engines.
That's 600,000 coconuts if you wanted to power all 4 engines, with a 20/80 mix.
It's even more crazy if you needed 1,200,000 coconuts to power 4 engines with a 40/60 mix. How much land and time do you need to be able to produce 1,200,000 coconuts?
This only shows how inefficient jet engines are. Here we are trying to save a couple of gallons of gas in our cars, but airplanes (both commercial and military) need to step up and make it a more efficient way to travel.
--It's even more crazy if you needed 1,200,000 coconuts to power 4 engines with a 40/60 mix. How much land and time do you need to be able to produce 1,200,000 coconuts?
133.33 acres for 1 year(see above coconut data)
coconut math FTW!
@jmiday, thanks! We posted at the same time. It's great that you did the calculations, and that's just a ridiculous amount of coconuts just to fly 230 km (or about 144 miles).
A fully loaded 747 weighs nearly a million pounds and can carry more than 400 people and a pile of cargo at more than 500mph. You're gonna burn a lot of fuel moving that much mass at that speed, there's no way around it.
The fuel consumption sounds obscene, but if you compare it to 400 individual cars and SUVs traveling the same distance it looks a lot more favorable. Particularly when you factor in that the plane can travel in a straight line from point A to point B, and doesn't sit idling in traffic.