Rethinking Carnot: Scientists overcome traditional power-efficiency trade-off

The engine works by taking heat from the hot reservoir, converting some of it into useful work, and rejecting the remaining ...
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Researchers propose heat engine that surpasses classical thermodynamic limits

A study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) details a "Gambling Carnot Engine" that researchers report can attain 100% efficiency while also improving power generation. Subscribe to our ...
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Physicist Designs Perfect Automotive Engine

Marlan Scully, the Texas A&M University professor who applied quantum physics to the automotive engine and came up with a design that emits laser beams instead of exhaust, has been tinkering under the ...
Nature

Carnot's Cycle and Efficiency of Heat-Engines

THE cycle proposed by Dr. J. S. Haldane (NATURE, August 29, p. 326) as a standard of comparison for steam engine performance can be shown quite readily on a temperature-entropy chart, and thus be ...
The Hindu

Bengaluru researchers overcome Carnot limit, age-old thermodynamic puzzle solved with novel micro heat engine

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have cracked an age-old thermodynamic puzzle by devising a novel micro heat ...
Nature

Carnot's Cycle and the Efficiency of Heat Engines

IN a paper on Carnot's Cycle and the Efficiency of Heat Engines, reported in NATURE, August 29, Dr. J. S. Haldane comes to the astonishing conclusion that “the Carnot cycle is radically in efficient” ...