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Originally Posted by jediali
have you seen drakkies basement?
Seriously though thermal efficiency of petrol engines are as low as 25%  . And by saying "...A combustion engine has 30% efficiency (not even counting the rest of the production and distibution process). " Im sure you know that he meant that the car efficiency relates to a product that requires further inneficiencies (big or small) to produce. |
Sure, but many of these inefficiencies are also involved in producing and distributing electricity, whereby hydro power might give the best conventional solution, (nuclear has its own specific problems...)
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