Best power plants are no more than 45-48& efficient.
Granted, direct-drive gas and diesel engines are even less efficient, but more than half the energy used goes out as waste: mainly waste heat, but also cooling water, pumps and compressors, secondary systems and friction, etc.
36 posted on 01/25/2004 6:32:47 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
(I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; snopercod; Robert357; Dog Gone
Thanks for dropping by!
38 posted on 01/25/2004 6:35:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)