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Yes, I know that, but in familiar cases (like an internal combustion engine) the heat sink is mainly just venting exhaust to the atmosphere. The heatsink exists
by Lagged2Death 12y ago
Yes, I know that, but in familiar cases (like an internal combustion engine) the heat sink is mainly just venting exhaust to the atmosphere. The heatsink exists as a part of the environment, almost an accident of the design. It's a sort of implicit heatsink as opposed to an explicit one.
- hrjet 12y agoGenuine question: if we wrap an IC engine with a heat sink that captures the excess heat for re-use, what do we get? And is overall more or less efficient than using the sterling engine in article?
- bryanlarsen 12y agoYes. It's less efficient, but not significantly so. The term you want to punch into Google for more information is "micro CHP" (combined heat & power).