Ride Lugged

So Nick linked this picture in the post about Randonneurs of China

I’m curious about what you could possibly do with that much gas. My initial reaction was that you could maybe cook a pot of soup or something minor like that but it looks like I was wrong here are my findings.

I’m going to guess that his gas worm is about 1000 cubic feet of gas ( V = pi * r^2 * h) -> 3.14 * 16ft * 20ft. According to wikipedia,

Natural gas in the U.S. is measured in CCF (100 cubic feet).

He has 10 CCF.

To raise a 40-gallon tank of 55°F water up to 105°F would require 40 x 8.3 x 50 / 100,000 BTU, or approximately 0.17 CCF

So it looks to me like he could get ~2300 gallons of hot water out of that sack.

I haven’t really been keeping up with my basic math skills lately so if I screwed something up feel free to correct me. and if anyone wants to get into the natural gas worm business let me know, it looks lucrative.

Another interesting way to look at that worm would be that with a standard flow shower head (2.5 gallons per minute) he could have 92 ten minute showers.