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Old 01-02-2014, 07:15 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut View Post
And I can show how you can take 144 Watts of power and use the output in something as inefficient as an electrolysis machine to change the combustion mixture to extract more of the energy inherent in the fuel
But that 144 watts is coming from a "maybe" %65 efficient alternator, being driven by a "maybe" %30 efficient ICE... So that 144 watts represents 740 "watts" of fuel.
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