dudmuck
Diamond Member
a combined-cycle gas turbine gets 50 percent efficiency.Yes but moving the liquid does not release the energy It only moves the mass. To release the energy you have to combust it. The best ICE these days will get about 35%. Anytime you approach 60% You're approaching the heat limit of the materials that the engine is made of.
its possible for ICE to get up to 35% efficiency?
typically ICE is converting only around 16-25% of fuel energy into usable motion