Again, the local TV news is babbling about the best time to buy your gas.
"Buy at night when the gas is denser," the teleprompter reading buffoons bellow.
Okay..... consider this.
Climatic conditions in areas next to oceans tend to have fewer extremes in temperature. The ocean acts as a heat sink, absorbing heat and releasing it slower than soil does.
This latency also occurs away from the ocean. It takes a little time for absorbed heat to dissipate. The atmosphere loses heat quicker than the ocean or land does. The shortest day of the year is in December yet the average coldest temperatures are in January..... a time when the days are getting longer.
Yes, a complicated subject but the basics are out there on the Web or in some science-related books.
First, just how much of the sun-created daytime heat can reach those underground tanks? I don't know but I have noticed how house basements are often cooler than the house above.
So, even if there is heat transfer to the gas in those underground tanks it will be during the daylight hours, stopping when the sun quits beating down.
Second, consider the latency factor. Suppose there actually is heat transferred to the gas in that underground tank (not saying there is or isn't). The latency factor regarding how fluids hold heat tells me that it would take awhile for that stored-up heat to transfer to the soil around the tanks. To attain the desired outcome as related by the TV dingalings, one would have to pump the gas after that built-up heat has transferred. Merely claiming that pumping at night is the best time is a meaningless statement.
The pumper has to wait for a certain period of time after the sun sets for the accumulated heat to have dissipated!!!!
Seems to this writer that the optimal time would be at sunrise up to an hour or so after, before the day's heat has had a chance to warm the gas in those underground tanks and the lengthiest period of time from when yesterday's heating was transferred to the fuel tanks.
Thus, instead of spewing "fill up at night," doesn't logic dictate that one should actually pump fuel first thing in the morning after the sun has risen and up to a couple hours afterward?
Coot is applying what is hopefully logic since data and facts are unavailable. Seems that logical thinking and a basic awareness of thermodynamics would negate what the babblers babble in their broadcast.
Comments?
One request. Coot has noticed a mere few incidents of inability to comprehend the written word. Please, before lambasting the old guy, ensure thou hast read and comprehended the message the was hopefully communicated in a manner that is, in fact, comprehensible.
Thank you, thank you very much.
/Coot hasn't left the shanty.
"Buy at night when the gas is denser," the teleprompter reading buffoons bellow.
Okay..... consider this.
Climatic conditions in areas next to oceans tend to have fewer extremes in temperature. The ocean acts as a heat sink, absorbing heat and releasing it slower than soil does.
This latency also occurs away from the ocean. It takes a little time for absorbed heat to dissipate. The atmosphere loses heat quicker than the ocean or land does. The shortest day of the year is in December yet the average coldest temperatures are in January..... a time when the days are getting longer.
Yes, a complicated subject but the basics are out there on the Web or in some science-related books.
First, just how much of the sun-created daytime heat can reach those underground tanks? I don't know but I have noticed how house basements are often cooler than the house above.
So, even if there is heat transfer to the gas in those underground tanks it will be during the daylight hours, stopping when the sun quits beating down.
Second, consider the latency factor. Suppose there actually is heat transferred to the gas in that underground tank (not saying there is or isn't). The latency factor regarding how fluids hold heat tells me that it would take awhile for that stored-up heat to transfer to the soil around the tanks. To attain the desired outcome as related by the TV dingalings, one would have to pump the gas after that built-up heat has transferred. Merely claiming that pumping at night is the best time is a meaningless statement.
The pumper has to wait for a certain period of time after the sun sets for the accumulated heat to have dissipated!!!!
Seems to this writer that the optimal time would be at sunrise up to an hour or so after, before the day's heat has had a chance to warm the gas in those underground tanks and the lengthiest period of time from when yesterday's heating was transferred to the fuel tanks.
Thus, instead of spewing "fill up at night," doesn't logic dictate that one should actually pump fuel first thing in the morning after the sun has risen and up to a couple hours afterward?
Coot is applying what is hopefully logic since data and facts are unavailable. Seems that logical thinking and a basic awareness of thermodynamics would negate what the babblers babble in their broadcast.
Comments?
One request. Coot has noticed a mere few incidents of inability to comprehend the written word. Please, before lambasting the old guy, ensure thou hast read and comprehended the message the was hopefully communicated in a manner that is, in fact, comprehensible.
Thank you, thank you very much.
/Coot hasn't left the shanty.
