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Comment by cyberax

5 months ago

There are papers that do thermodynamic analysis of similar systems finding something like ~65% efficiency. So 75% might be a bit fluffed up, but not outrageously so.

E.g. if they can use the waste heat for district heating and count that as useful work.

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