The petrol pumps at our local supermarket have been upgraded. There is now a button that you can press on the diesel pump to give a fast delivery. You unhook the nozzle, press the button and you get diesel at the super-fast rate of 5 metres cubed per hour.
This is handy to know if you need to fill a 5 metre-cubed fuel tank; you can do it in an hour. Or even a one metre-cubed one; you can fill it in 12 minutes. The time to fill a normal car fuel tank of capacity say, about 80 litres needs a bit of calculation. I hope you have a calculator handy.
5 metres cubed per hour is 5,000 litres in 3,600 seconds, or about 1.4 litres/second, or say 10 litres in 7 seconds. So you can fill an 80 litre tank in just under a minute.
A posted delivery rate of 1.4 litres/sec would be helpful; 7 seconds for 10 litres might be even better. But 5m per hour is useless.
It's also useless unless you know how fast your tank can accept the fuel and expel the air.
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