¶ Energy Slave (2)
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Energy Slave:
"If you take the work that a young healthy man can do in a year, and once you get the foot-pounds you can get the decimal units or kilowatts, or anything you want from kilowatt hours. We have manpower years. And we can rate those as if we were talking about horsepower years.
“I found that the way we use our energy, either as matter–the way we design an engine, the relative efficiencies, and use up a whole lot of energies in some kind of engines, or reciprocating . . . our automobiles are only 15 percent efficient. They were actually not designed right because you have the explosion on top of the piston, and the piston connecting with the connecting rod and the crankshaft center–it contradicts you immediately–15 percent is all you get out of it. In the turbine you have the explosion on the side to go, with a 90-degree restraint instead of a 180-degree restraint, and you get 30 percent efficiency. In our jet engine without any connecting rod at all, you get 60 percent efficiency. Increments each time of 15, 30, and 60 percent. It is interesting to understand these things we are doing.”
¶ Citations
- World Game, Jun-Jul’69
