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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