Reply #64: I'm struggling to be polite here. [View All]

[Gregorian]

I do know a bit about thermodynamics and energy production.

But one thing I will say, that every time an energy conversion is made, there is a loss. So to go from an internal combustion engine, to compressed air, isn't even as good as going directly from the first. Now, there are all kinds of variables, so it's very easy to continue this as an argument ad infinitem. But given all things constant, that is the case. It takes so much energy to move us around. The only thing, all things constant, that is of issue, is the production (if one wants to call it that) of energy. We aren't really producing anything. Just converting.