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To everyone in this thread commenting about the Carnot efficiency: yes, the Carnot efficiency grows with T, but you must use a Carnot engine for that! The Carnot theorem is an upper bound not a property of a given engine. It’s trivial to build a heat engine whose real efficiency (measured efficiency / Carnot efficiency) approaches 0.


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