The funny thing is that there really is an upper limit to how much energy can be
taken out of a gallon of fuel, and his number of 16 is a reasonable number for
an engine run at WOT. But to claim it as an absolute is ridiculous, since most
engines at reduced throttle do better, and some do much better. Further,
claiming that cruisers always run at the full rated hp is absurd.

Its so typical of jaxie to take a simple "rule of thumb" and claim that its an
absolute that can never be violated.


"DSK" wrote in message
...
JAXAshby wrote:

modern, water-cooled, 4-cycle, brand spanking new diesel engines in
laboratory
conditions use about 1 gallon of fuel for each 16 hp produced.

Well, in this corner, all by himself, we have JAXAshby repeating "16 hp
per gph, 16 16 16" and then we have the rest of the world providing more
detailed and sensible explanations for a variety of differing figures.

Jax is right, of course... the whole rest of the world is wrong. We all
know that and agree, don't we? Of course we do, there there don't worry...

I'm not sure why Jax enjoys being center man in this perpetual game of
kick-the-clown.

DSK