Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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Something to ponder...
As I stated in my earlier posts, HP is a metric that measures the rate of energy consumption or delivery, and in the case of a vehicle, is kinetic energy delivery.
Every physical "thing" posseses some form of energy, but no physical "thing" is energy.
Energy is a metric that exists between all fields of engineering and it is the metric that allows the engineering fields to be bound together.
So while HP is interesting and necessary when taking a systems approach, it doesn't provide any real insight into speed without looking at it as a graphed dependent variable related to the independent variables of torque (force) and angular (linear) velocity.
BTW, I much prefer my diesel over a gas engne for the towing that I do...
:)
Something to ponder...
As I stated in my earlier posts, HP is a metric that measures the rate of energy consumption or delivery, and in the case of a vehicle, is kinetic energy delivery.
Every physical "thing" posseses some form of energy, but no physical "thing" is energy.
Energy is a metric that exists between all fields of engineering and it is the metric that allows the engineering fields to be bound together.
So while HP is interesting and necessary when taking a systems approach, it doesn't provide any real insight into speed without looking at it as a graphed dependent variable related to the independent variables of torque (force) and angular (linear) velocity.
BTW, I much prefer my diesel over a gas engne for the towing that I do...
:)
