>Sorry Hilmar the misconception is yours, you cannot have a lot of force applied with a small amount of energy expended, this is the point I am making about the flaw in the current model that you can't have work without displacement.
To support a weight with a post does not require a constant flow of fuel (although you
might do it more wastefully, with the example you gave...). To move a car along a certain distance requires fuel - and no way has been found yet to avoid that. Therefore, I don't see any reason to doubt the formula I quoted.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
