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Cool, thanks! It's really surprising to me that inserting a mechanical intermediary has such a large efficiency advantage.
by jessriedel 9y ago
Cool, thanks! It's really surprising to me that inserting a mechanical intermediary has such a large efficiency advantage.
- brians 9y agoWhy does mechanical stuff suck? Because of friction of moving parts. Too much energy is lost to heat. For a thermal engine, if you can arrange to put the moving parts mostly on the hot side, that’s no longer loss.