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Old 10-30-2009, 09:00 PM   #427 (permalink)
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I don't suppose you recognize your assumption there?
That you care about efficiency?


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That the generator/motor is necessarily less efficient?
Oh, absolutely it is less efficient,
a bike chain and sprockets has been clocked at %98.6 efficient
Bicycle chain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You are lucky to get %80 out of pedalling a generator to turn a motor, if you assume all the voltages and rpms and load are right to get 90% out of the motor times %90 out of the generator. Usually much less.

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