Operating temps (No GM content)

Jeremy Gonyou jgonyou at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 28 00:24:35 GMT 1999


>	Okay...pardom my shameless ignorance, but I have to ask.  Seems to me
>that, according to the theory that there's no free lunch, any sort of
>restriction in the path of the air would HEAT it via friction and/or
>compression, and then try to cool it back down upon expansion.  Would it
>not be, overall, warmer than if it had not been restricted in the first 
>place?
>

Also, wouldn't you just be cooling to ambient again?  If I remember right 
from thermodynamics, with 100% efficiency work in is equal to work out.  
I.e, what ever you gain in heat transfer you lose to the extra load on the 
crank.

Jeremy

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