Greatest Engine Invention in Human History?

Fuck Vanilla, so @YellowSnow wrote:

"Diesel is vastly underrated in this exercise. It's hard to imagine a world without diesel given it's role in agriculture, mining, construction, etc. It's the most efficient engine of them all. I think the only thing which puts the gas ICE ahead of diesel is its role on aviation. You're not putting diesel engines in B-29s or P-51s."

Not even close.

This chart doesn't include Stirling engines, which have an even higher theoretical maximum thermal efficiency, although it's just a lesser explored design. And it's also strictly thermal efficiency. From a power density standpoint, diesel falls even further behind.

And, yes, I've been an oil man for over 20 years. That doesn't mean I don't consider it to be an amazing stepping stone whose time has passed. I'm like the deckhand on the last whaling ship or the guysm trying to develop lighter, crisper buggy whips in 1910.

Speaking of steam, this is somewhat a fascination of mine as I wander the ol' workplace. It's such a steampunk concept: I leave a modern control room full of 80" 8K monitors and massive touchscreens and PID control, follow thousands of miles of fiber optic cable out into a process unit where we're boiling explosive material and moving it with steam. I'm constantly thinking, "How is this 2024?"

Fucking Todd Turner.

And today's UW Freshman and Sophomores were born during Ty's vicious animal understanding. CHRIST