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    Oct 12, 2010, 02:23 PM
    What is the ideal efficiency of a heat engine with a hot reservior of 500 K and a eat
    What is the ideal efficiency of a heat engine with a hot reservior of 500 K and a eat sink of 300 K?
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    Oct 13, 2010, 06:47 AM

    Well, everybody would like to have an ideal efficiency of 100% right? :)

    Or are you asking for something else? =/
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