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Madison Co. Virginia | Turbines are much more power-dense than piston engines, and at full load, they're efficient enough to be competitive with piston engines. But a gas turbine's efficiency at low loads is terrible compared to a piston engine. You won't see turbines replacing piston engines in fuel-economy-critical applications anytime soon, and likely never.
It's interesting to look at all the 1960's predictions for the future. Flying cars, massive skyscrapers, everyday space flight, etc. In the 1960's, fission power was going to produce unlimited energy, and all these futuristic ideas were going to be possible because of that cheap energy. That never happened; energy never became cheap like was predicted. What DID become extremely cheap was information. The visionaries of the 1960's never could have imagined the cheap access we have to information storage, processing power, and communication infrastructure that we have today. Who knows? Maybe someday we will get to the long-predicted stage of extremely cheap energy, if fusion works out. But I doubt that energy will ever be really cheap during my lifetime.
Edited by kipps 11/29/2023 07:39
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Will something new repalce diesel motors in farm machinery in the future?
