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TheSpiceIsLife
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We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Beginning
> no cooling system.
How can this be true?
smileysteve
on June 14, 2019
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A closed loop steam engine, the burners get the boiler hot enough to produce the power they need, then the engine extracts that heat from the boiler to mechanical energy.
TheSpiceIsLife
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A closed loop steam engine without a cooling system is going to be terribly inefficient.
Heat engine efficiency is reliant on temperature differential.
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