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Old 08-09-2011, 04:48 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Actually a turbine is a heat engine to some degree. Power extracted is proportional to the square root of the gas temperature entering it. So increasing the exhaust temp a little going into it isn't going to get you much. Phantom is correct however that power extracted is directly proportional to mass.
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