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"One gallon of gasoline,at stoichiometric ratio has the energy of 10 sticks of trinitrotuluene(TNT)."
Let's consider a typical modern vehicle which burns liquid-phase-changed gaseous fuel at 30 MPG while touring at 60 mph. Each hour it burns 2 gallons to go those 60 miles. One gallon is 128 fluid ounces. During each hour it burns 256 fluid ounces. Or we can convert that to usage per minute as 256/60 = 4.27 fluid ounces per minute. Exhaust-heated gasoline vaporizers flash-boil only as much liquid fuel as it is needed as it about to be inducted. Many of those system only provide about 50% of the engine's fuel and fuel the rest with liquid-injection systems. So at any specific moment, only a tiny vaporized gasoline volume is present in the generator. Yet even that volume is NOT yet mixed with oxygen from the air. You could fire a spark plug all day inside that 100%-fuel 0%-oxygen environment trying to get it to burn. But your attempt would fail just as a child trying to blow up a city by trying to send a flame down their parent's home gas stove feed pipe can't produce a flame front. Both would fail because there's no significant free oxygen within either of those fuel supplies.
Why write these irrelevant "boogeyman" stories? Who do you think would be foolish enough to think you are describing relevant dangers? It seems a little insulting to other readers. Why do you think other site readers would be so poorly informed as to think this comparison with TNT should be considered?
If you only intended it as a joke, I apologize for failing to understand that intent.
John
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