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jamesqf · 07-21-2008, 07:29 PM

In one way it's neat, but in another it seems pretty pointless. Why tinker with raising the efficiency of an IC engine, when a Stirling engine is thermodynamically even better? All you need to do is marry it to the proper hybrid system.

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jamesqf Master EcoModder Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Earth Posts: 5,209 Thanks: 225 Thanked 811 Times in 594 Posts	In one way it's neat, but in another it seems pretty pointless. Why tinker with raising the efficiency of an IC engine, when a Stirling engine is thermodynamically even better? All you need to do is marry it to the proper hybrid system.