OK, "loss" is energy that's not useful. The fact is that if you're just playing around with energy, you're losing it.
...and you lose energy dorking around with it. TANSTAAFL
Both are losers.
Oh, good grief. READ!
** Like in this video:
.... Phil
Yeah, that's it. 100% loss!
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:31:34 -0500, krw Gave us:
IC engines are notoriously very inefficient. This means that a lot of spent energy ends up in the exhaust system. There have been adaptations to reclaim so of that (the passenger compartment heater in a VW and a Corvair, IIRC) and reuse of exhaust flow stream (at an HP cost) to drive a boost device (turbocharger) which yields gains which outweigh the loss caused by the flow restriction.
Drive belts and pulleys are also used to drive superchargers.
Al told, even a 1500 HP top fuel dragster engine is not considered to be efficient by energy in over energy put to use as work standards.
Trains, however use a diesel to drive a generator which drives an electric motor, and they consider that to be the most efficient means of getting power to the drive wheels of a train, because they can do so regardless of the rpm at any given moment.
Well, you've added TotallyIrrelevant to your AlwaysWrong name. Though, I suppose you always were.
Compared to using a mechanical gear the electrical gear is much more simpler and efficient yes.
joe
As if there was anything relevant about anyone's contribution to the entropy of this group!!! lol
-- Rick
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:40:42 -0800 (PST), Phil Allison Gave us:
Or this one:
not the biggest by far
or this
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:22:25 -0500, krw Gave us:
You ain't real bright, boy. You're so stupid, you probably do not even know what "IC engine" refers to.
You don't have to prove that you're AlwaysWrong, TotallyIrrelevant.
*EVERYONE* here knows it.DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
** Locomotives are unusual in that high weight is an advantage and as many wheels as possible must be driven to get usable traction on smooth steel rails.Multiple electric motors, one for each axle, are the norm.
.... Phil
On 12/19/2015 8:18 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote: [...]
Top fuel runs something north of 10,000 hp. 1500-2500 is more typical of a street cruiser:
-- Grizzly H.
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:50:04 -0800 (PST), Phil Allison Gave us:
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