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To: Big_Monkey
Even if it's just a micro-turbine, you would think the exhaust would be significantly hotter and under more pressure than a combustion engine.

Probably higher pressure, but I doubt it is any hotter than an IC engine. You are burning a hydrocarbon fuel either way.

107 posted on 06/12/2009 12:05:51 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto

“Probably higher pressure, but I doubt it is any hotter than an IC engine. You are burning a hydrocarbon fuel either way.”

If it is engineered correctly, I would think the exhaust would be a little cooler, it is extracting more of the energy to do work and ejecting less as waste heat.


108 posted on 06/12/2009 12:15:29 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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