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To: dangerdoc

I was allowing a little extra for oomph on acceleration, as well as some loss from translation of the heat energy to vehicle motion.


15 posted on 04/07/2011 11:00:11 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (Liberty, not License. Freedom, not Slavery.)
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To: Liberty1970

Yeah, you are right, if you are talking kilowatts of heat, 100 may be marginal, I was thinking kilowatts of electric output, my mistake not yours.

Depending on temperatures, you may need several hundred kilowatts of heat to run a car, Carnot efficiency is lousy at lower temps.

The good news is that you wouldn’t have to worry about freezing to death in your car even if it doesn’t run like a sports car.


16 posted on 04/07/2011 2:09:29 PM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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