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walrus01 on June 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon

According to this, diesel is 45.6MJ/kg

Jet fuel is 43MJ/kg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

A big part of it has to be how much is lost to heat, an internal combustion engine is far from efficient... But then again neither is a turbine.

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