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And for the curious: contains 36 kWh.



Or, to be more precise, when burned in a modern car engine, produces 36kWh. If I pop it into my handy iMatterToEnergy(tm), I get substantially more...


If you had that, you could produce energy directly from air, or from waste, or from whatever. The point of gasoline is that the energy is cheaply extractable by chemical means (which means it does not require extraordinary energy levels to unlock and very expensive machines and protections to operate).


Diesel is slightly more efficient too, though I believe it's the most efficient current fuel (energy per volume).




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