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Everything related to heat transfer is still relevant and very, very interesting, but I love how dated the assumption of non renewable energy is now in that met
by finiteseries 5y ago
Everything related to heat transfer is still relevant and very, very interesting, but I love how dated the assumption of non renewable energy is now in that method of calculating thermal efficiency.
Who cares if the perfect turbine could only ever convert 59% of the wind power through it!
- 8bitsrule 5y agoAlso mentions the Rocket Stove (new to me), which looks well-worth getting to know about. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater] (Wiki article describes several designs as well.) "a rocket mass heater consists of an insulated combustion chamber where fuel is burned with high efficiency at high temperature, and a large thermal mass in contact with the exhaust gases which absorbs most of the generated heat before the gases are released to the atmosphere.... "