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From: Adrian on 21 May 2010 06:47 "GT" <a(a)b.c> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > He wants us to measure how dense the fuel is and what supply chain it > came through. I don't understand how buying fuel from different places > can physically change an engine and alter its efficiency - perhaps he > knows of a garage that tunes your car while you fill up Perhaps you don't understand that diesel and petrol cars use different types of fuel?
From: GT on 21 May 2010 06:56 "Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:85n6m7Fn9gU21(a)mid.individual.net... > "GT" <a(a)b.c> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > >> He wants us to measure how dense the fuel is and what supply chain it >> came through. I don't understand how buying fuel from different places >> can physically change an engine and alter its efficiency - perhaps he >> knows of a garage that tunes your car while you fill up > > Perhaps you don't understand that diesel and petrol cars use different > types of fuel? No, I think I got that one thanks!
From: boltar2003 on 21 May 2010 10:06 On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:24:32 +0100 Phil W Lee <phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote: >energy content is proportion to mass, not volume (which, among other >things, explains why commercial aircraft measure fuel in Kg or lbs, I would imagine the main reason for that is because if the plane is too heavy it won't take off or crashes shortly after takeoff. Not a problem you get with road vehicles. B2003
From: Nick Finnigan on 21 May 2010 12:41 GT wrote: > > OK, lets make it simple for the people that clearly didn't study and maths. > Given 1 gallon of fuel, a car that can propel itself for 50 miles is more > efficient than a car that can propel itself only 40 miles. Simple as that. No. > The car with the higher MPG, burns fuel more efficiently. That clear? Clear, but wrong.
From: Nick Finnigan on 21 May 2010 13:08
boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:38:30 +0100 > "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote: >>> I'd be interested to know what other types of efficiencies in cars Adrian >>> thinks are important. Its oil usage? The amount of screen wash it gets >>> through? >> He wants us to measure how dense the fuel is and what supply chain it came >> through. I don't understand how buying fuel from different places can > > Well the density of diesel vs petrol is hardly a secret. And even if you ...and the mass of diesel or petrol producing a gram of CO2 is also known. > go by miles per unit weight rather than volume diesel cars would still be > more efficient than petrol ones. "For engines with the same aspiration and power, CO2 emissions using different fuels are quite similar." Prove me wrong. |