Diesel engines are more efficient, more reliable, easier to repair, and more polyvalent than gasoline engines.
Diesel engines produce combustion particles, but their ecological footprint can be reduced through the use of filters and additives. Like all combustion engines, they pollute, but they are the most efficient — meaning they use less fuel and emit less CO2 to move an equivalent mass than any other internal combustion engine.
In fact, it can run on fuel, but also on oils or biogas. For example, vegetable oils such as coconut oil or hemp oil, or even residual oils used by restaurants. For example, methane produced from manure and compost. The combustion of methane converts it into CO2, but this pollutes much less than methane left in the environment. If manure were used to produce biogas, this would limit the negative environmental impact of livestock farming.
Quels sont les gaz à effet de serre ?- Jean-Marc Jancovici: https://jancovici.com/changement-climatique/gaz-a-effet-de-serre-et-cycle-du-carbone/quels-sont-les-gaz-a-effet-de-serre-quels-sont-leurs-contribution-a-leffet-de-serre/
By taxing diesel, banning the use of oils for engines, and encouraging gasoline engines, governments are making citizens less independent and more dependent on oil sellers or mechanics. This makes Europe dependent on oil and therefore on Russia, the Gulf countries, or the United States, for example.
Private diesel cars can run on biogas, but using alternatives to oil is particularly effective in terms of the environment in agriculture (tractors, agricultural machinery, etc.), in industry (factory machinery, etc.) and transport (trucks, container ships, etc.).
Rudolf Diesel was a progressive idealist who invented the diesel engine for social and environmental reasons. His engine consumes less fuel than other internal combustion engines because it is more efficient — which has been proven mathematically by Sadi Carnot. He wanted to liberate factory workers by creating small, reliable engines that could run on any type of carbohydrate (oil), allowing people to work for themselves with small machines rather than the dehumanizing large machines found in factories. This makes it possible to use the carbohydrates that are available, what is at hand, allowing the use of residues and surplus oil.
Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of the Diesel Engine – ThoughtCo: https://www.thoughtco.com/rudolf-diesel-diesel-engine-1991648
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_L%C3%A9onard_Sadi_Carnot
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