Rich and Corporations wrote:United States of PA wrote:
Fair point, but diesels are still better at least in my opinion for reasons such as the fact they they have closed the power density scale, are almost as multifuel, cheaper iirc etc.
At this point its just arguing semantics. No engine is going to smoke like that BMPV-64 unless something is seriously wrong, you cannot argue that.
Actually with every new generation of turbines and diesels, turbines become fairly close to the fuel efficiency of previous generation diesels, and diesels become fairly close to the power density of the previous generation of turbines. But I'm certain a gap still exists.
And diesels need special equipment to be fueled with natural gas, while my tanks only need different fuel tanks.
I didn't even see the BMPV-64 video and I wasn't really factoring that into my arguments.
Spark Plugs + Special fuel lines and storage iirc are the big ones. Its a $20,000 conversion from a 1988 Caterpillar 3406B to do it. Hardly bank breaking.