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I don't think this has been posted here before - this is an excellent presentation from last fall's Diesel Engine Emissions Reduction (DEER) conference, given by John Fairbanks of the US DOE EERE (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) and Vehicle Technologies Program. It starts with some interesting history on diesel, gasoline, and fuel cell development, and proceeds towards the future of diesel development, explaining their projection of 60% thermal efficiency in diesel engines around 2014. On the history side, a little tidbit - people like to say that fuel cells are the future, as they are a very new technology, so we should expect rapid developments. Yet, fuel cells were actually developed 44 years BEFORE the diesel engine.
The presentation:
http://www.orau.gov/deer/presentations/Session1/Fairbanks%20Diesel%20Myth_Final.pdf
And the accompanying paper:
http://www.osti.gov/fcvt/deer2004/FairbanksDieselMythpaper.pdf
The presentation:
http://www.orau.gov/deer/presentations/Session1/Fairbanks%20Diesel%20Myth_Final.pdf
And the accompanying paper:
http://www.osti.gov/fcvt/deer2004/FairbanksDieselMythpaper.pdf