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By that argument, you lose energy when gasoline evaporates during transportation. In both cases (electricity and gasoline) loss is marginal and can be mitigated
by hire_charts 11y ago
By that argument, you lose energy when gasoline evaporates during transportation. In both cases (electricity and gasoline) loss is marginal and can be mitigated by striking a balance between centralization and transport/power line distance.
- fake44637 11y agoI wouldn't call it marginal (it's about 7% for the eletrical grid). See https://www.nema.org/Products/Documents/TDEnergyEff.pdf https://www.nema.org/Products/Documents/TDEnergyEff.pdf
- revelation 11y agoMerely refining oil into gasoline already has an efficiency of less than 90%.
- anigbrowl 11y agoMarginal doesn't necessarily mean small, but that it's proportional to the overall cost. In economics your fixed costs (eg the cost of building and equipping a factory or an oil field or whatever) go down as a percentage of unit price as you produce more goods, whereas your marginal costs are a function of production (eg transmission losses, taxes, raw materials, labor-per-piece).
- msandford 11y ago> By that argument, you lose energy when gasoline evaporates during transportation. Please show me where gasoline is being shipped in open vessels for that argument to hold water. Oil tankers? Sealed. Tanker trucks? Sealed. Your car's gas tank? Sealed. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/high-tech-fuel-tanks http://www.caranddriver.com/features/high-tech-fuel-tanks