Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Goh Lip]

On 05/13/2011 07:52 AM, Steve Flynn wrote:
> Diesel engines in the USA have a bad reputation thanks to the efforts
> of GM who made a spectacularly poor effort some years ago. You're not
> helped but the atrociously low quality Derv that's sold over there.
> It's very, very agricultural at best. I wouldn't use it to kill trees
> to be honest, it's that bad.
>
> Personally, I've had petrol cars for years - moved to a diesel last
> year and I won't go back. Way more torque, and double the mpg. Win
> Win.

Perception of diesel as a dirty, polluting, inefficient fuel in the usa 
is totally opposite to reality. In the bigger picture, diesel beats the 
prius in all these measurements (matrices? nah).

As for performance, the diesels beat the petrols at Le Mans for the last 
3 or 4 years. Advances in petrol engines had come from diesel 
technologies (direct fuel injection, high compression, etc) and 
common-rail-technology has provided unsurpassed torgue at all engine 
speed range.

Euro-class diesels are clean and efficient and GTL (gas to liquid) 
diesels give zero emission (no need for parts per million 
classification). With GTL diesels, derived from abundant (and cheap) 
natural gas, one wonders about worries about peak oil. One also wonders 
about media portrayal in the usa about diesel (and many other things).

> For the record, Unity is fine here on my machines.

I'm sticking to kde.  ;)

Regards - Goh Lip

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