by invest_in_politics » Mon 12 Mar 2007, 10:41:22
According to the paper, "An experiment modifying an internal combustion engine to eliminate w_in is currently underway to ascertain the validity of the prediction of efficiency enhancement."
For those of you technically trained, you really ought to get a copy of this paper. The model detailed in it is capable of nearly exactly reproducing measured efficiencies of Otto, Brayton, and Stirling cycle engines. This is something existing theory simply cannot do. Even more compelling is that the theory reduces to Carnot or Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency under certain conditions implying that these models are specific cases of this more general theory. It is really a coup in the field of thermodynamics.
IIP