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At any rate, the way we are using our energies then is very significant. And the reciprocating engine is inherently only 15 percent efficient. That’s all the work we’re getting out of it-- for really very obvious, simple reasons: The push on top of the piston sends it one way and the crankshaft contradicts it and sends it the other way-- so you’ve lost your direction altogether; there was a little momentum of the crankshaft having a little rotary-- it’s called a 180-degree restraint. But we have a little explosion on the side here and the connecting rod-- or call it a turbine-- 90-degree restraint, and it goes from 15 to 30 percent efficiency… fundamentally. Then you get into no restraint at all in a jet engine and you get up to 60 percent. And with the new fuel cells of the space program we get up to 85 percent. (The equipment is expensive, but it’s a fantastically efficient operation.
Now I found that the way we are using our energies-- we’ve known about the gas turbine for a long time; and the automobile companies and many of the trucks are operated on them, but the tooling costs-- the automobile companies say: society, the hell with it! Though we’ve had it available, we’ve not done anything about it. This is fairly typical of why-- I can understand all
