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Originally Posted by BeamOn
This is where you and I disagree. Take a look at ocean freighters and how they capture every once of energy from burning diesel. There are multitude of capturing and converting waste energy.
If your theory is indeed true, why we wouldn't all of us have generators at home? We would not have to deal with transmission losses which is something you brought up.
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With coal and fuel oil having ~40% energy conversion efficiency for power generation, the excess energy is going somewhere other than friction losses. For the most part, it's going up the stack or in the coolant water outflow. In fact, if your efficiency is too high, you won't get proper flow out of the stack (i.e., hot air rises).