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Originally Posted by Duffman
You totally missed the point. If an IC engine weighs half as much and produces the same HP, then the ICE is more efficeint.
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No, you miss the point. Efficiency is a precise concept. A fuel has a certain amount of chemical energy in it. Efficiency is the percentage of that energy that an engine can convert to useful work. The Stirling cycle engine is as efficient as it's possible for a heat engine to be. That's just basic thermodynamics.