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Old 04-30-2014, 11:28 PM   #74 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
If you could harvest all the exhaust heat to run a hermetically-sealed gas cycle turbo-compressor or turbo-vacuum pump,you might be able to augment the flow volume to the slots.This energy is being wasted and is about 33% of the engines entropy.

that is a lot of hp that is available for recovery , once a method is devised.

Worth trying to figure out to put it mildly.
First thing comes to my mind is steam regeneration next is making it a electrical generation system that turns heat into electricity for storage and use later for the cars needs.

Combine both ideas and its a steam engine for electricity production.
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