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Originally Posted by pete c
The bottom like is, rather than throwing away all that pumping loss energy, you want to add it back to the crankshaft.
Am I on the right track here or not?
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Yes, especially if you replace the throttle plate (a simple metal disk) with a complex system that provides a controlled pressure drop over a wide range of speeds and feeds the resulting energy into the crankshaft.
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