> So China burns coal, to generate power, at huge heat and transmission loses,
Are they truly burning coal or are they making syngas for use with a CCGT and shipping the coke off for their steel? (Probably a bit of both, my wager.) Cause a CCGT is gonna be -at least- as efficient as an atkinson cycle gas engine.
> once they implement particulate filters on them,
You can hypothetically do this with a coal plant too, and what's even better is, it's easier to 'check up on' one power plant vs thousands or millions of individuals to make sure the filter is present and being maintained. (e.x. Cat deletes on gas engines.)
> A gasoline engine, runs for a very long lifetime now,
Short of something with a Toyota HSD style setup, you've still got a lot of -other- components that break down in increasing frequency to support that. Your Steel Belt CVTs, your 8-10 speed transmissions with too much complexity slammed in resulting in various reliability issues... And lately almost every manufacturer, even Toyota, has had to do a recall on some engines due to very bad failure modes. And all of it in the name of trying to keep gas engines to the need for efficiency while also trying to add far more power than most people need in a daily.
Are they truly burning coal or are they making syngas for use with a CCGT and shipping the coke off for their steel? (Probably a bit of both, my wager.) Cause a CCGT is gonna be -at least- as efficient as an atkinson cycle gas engine.
> once they implement particulate filters on them,
You can hypothetically do this with a coal plant too, and what's even better is, it's easier to 'check up on' one power plant vs thousands or millions of individuals to make sure the filter is present and being maintained. (e.x. Cat deletes on gas engines.)
> A gasoline engine, runs for a very long lifetime now,
Short of something with a Toyota HSD style setup, you've still got a lot of -other- components that break down in increasing frequency to support that. Your Steel Belt CVTs, your 8-10 speed transmissions with too much complexity slammed in resulting in various reliability issues... And lately almost every manufacturer, even Toyota, has had to do a recall on some engines due to very bad failure modes. And all of it in the name of trying to keep gas engines to the need for efficiency while also trying to add far more power than most people need in a daily.