[GTALUG] fuel [was: mysterious restarts]

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sat Jun 18 22:19:58 EDT 2016


On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 08:31:23PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 06/18/2016 07:34 PM, Loui Chang wrote:
> > Not a great incentive. Propane which is cheaper and burns cleaner
> > than gas, is already widespread and easy to obtain and is already
> > being used in vehicles.
> >
> > Why hasn't it overtaken gasoline as the fuel of choice?

My peeves is, why hasn't "diesel electric" taken over?  I drive regular
diesel, and it's already more efficient than any gasoline or hybrid car
currently on the market.

> 
> It's still tricky to handle and it's also a fossil fuel, which adds
> CO2 to the atmosphere, no matter how clean it is otherwise.  We have
> to get away from fossil fuels.

Why?  I like my fossil fuel, and I like my Thorium nuclear plant even
more.
-- 
William


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