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 ...
Ars Technica

Pulsed engines provide high efficiency, output power, low fluctuations

One famous limit of thermodynamics is that heat engines, like steam engines and internal combustion engines, must be less efficient than a Carnot heat engine (a heat engine cycle designed by French ...
JSTOR Daily

COMPARISON OF EFFICIENCY OF A SOLAR DRIVEN CARNOT ENGINE UNDER MAXIMUM POWER AND POWER DENSITY CONDITIONS

Abstract: A comparative analysis on thermodynamic efficiency based on maximum power & power density conditions have been performed for a solar-driven Carnot heat engine with internal irreversibility.
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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 ...
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” ...