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Yep, 20% efficiency is pretty normal in an internal combustion engine. Burning the same fuel in a power plant, on the other hand, you can get 80-90% efficiency
by hugh 18y ago
Yep, 20% efficiency is pretty normal in an internal combustion engine.
Burning the same fuel in a power plant, on the other hand, you can get 80-90% efficiency.
- anamax 18y agoI wish that I remember which law of thermodynamics makes 80% "unlikely".
- hugh 18y agoThe second (it's always the second). And you're right, I was wrong, the maximum efficiency of a power plant is more like 50%. Perhaps I was thinking of the efficiency of the turbines rather than the whole process.