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Old April 26th 11, 08:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Apr 2011 08:25:53, d posted:


That doesn't matter - 1 mole of CO2 at room temperature takes up vastly
more volume than 1 mole of liquid a hydrocarbon.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; but you have not yet reached
that stage.

A mole of CO2 gas at room temperature takes up essentially the same
volume as the oxygen that it was in part made from.

Fuel is, in essence, a polymer of (CH2); for each CO2 there will be an
H2O, but H2O gas only takes twice the volume of the oxygen that went
into it.

Don't forget that at least 80% (by volume) of the input gas is nitrogen,
which plays no useful part in the chemistry.

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