[permaculture] A 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid -Coming Soon from VW:
Toby Hemenway
toby at patternliteracy.com
Fri Feb 29 18:17:36 EST 2008
Trudie Redding wrote:
> Diesel is not an efficient fuel to manufacture
>
>
You need a referent here: compared to what? Diesel has more energy per
pound than gasoline and needs less refining from crude oil, so it's more
efficient than gasoline. Certainly more efficient than converting coal
to gas fuels. More efficient than coal or oil converted to electricity.
So, what's it not as efficient as?
Toby
http:patternliteracy.com
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