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Old 03-26-2018, 04:11 PM   #5 (permalink)
hayden55
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
I read about losses up to 50%, so 88% efficiency seems a bit optimistic.
Anybody have anymore info on what percent of product is lost when generating pretroleum products from crude oil?
Also I wonder what the effects of that would be since both sides for the most part take power to produce their fuel source before power production and we are n't counting that on either side but just from the power plant, to transport, to the tank?
So I guess I mean to say they would be off to around the same percent for each?
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