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Elon musk claims that even if you take the same source fuel and burn it into stationary power plants, you're still better off. If you burn natural gas in a mode
by kumarski 14y ago
Elon musk claims that even if you take the same source fuel and burn it into stationary power plants, you're still better off. If you burn natural gas in a modern general electric gas turbine, you'll get about 60% efficiency. If you put that same fuel in an internal combustion engine, you get about 20% efficiency. So electric cars 'make sense' if this logic is valid.
http://youtu.be/IgKWPdJWuBQ?t=59s http://youtu.be/IgKWPdJWuBQ?t=59s I summarized at 59 seconds of this youtube clip you can see his exact claim. Is his claim logically/mathematically sound?^