Talk:Heating value

Useful information
It would be useful to add some information from the German page (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heizwert), if someone can do a translation. 52.159.64.103 08:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Please explain
Would someone please explain the parenthetical notation following the fuel names in the table? For example: Methane (v-l,v). What does the (v-l,v) mean? I have never seen such notation before. Is it really necessary? Personally, I don't think it is. Thanks in advance for an explanation of the notation and why it is needed at all. - mbeychok 06:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I just spent two hours searching Google and here on Wikipedia, but could find no explanation of the strange notation such as (v-l, v). Thus, I am going to remove those notations as being unnecessary in this article on Heating value. - mbeychok 18:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Extensive re-formatting and some deletions to make this article more readable
I re-formatted the article to keep all of the tables from squeezing the text of the article into a very narrow width, and thus to make the article more readable. I deleted a few of the "See also" links and a few Categories which had little or no relevance to this article.

I also deleted some of the very esoteric fuels from the tables. For example: Antimatter, Neutrons, Protium, Plutonium-Nickel chain, Boranes, Transition salts, Uranium chain, Carbon-14, Beryllium hydride, etc. Their fuel properties were not explained at all and, frankly, many of them required a very high level of knowledge about advanced physics. I believe those items would be more appropriate in a separate article or two.

All in all, I believe the article is now much better organized and readable. - mbeychok 07:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Fuel needed to run a 100W lightbulb for a year (876 kWh)
I think the uranium and Sun (fusion) items need explaining. Is this mass the total mass of fuel, or the mass that is converted to energy? Does the uranium number count only the U-235, or the U-238 that comes with it? Also, to make it complete, a new line of matter-antimatter anhililation should be added. Albmont (talk) 14:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)