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Can you please share the math? 🙏

I know that thermal efficiency of gas turbines/engines is something like ~30%.

Also they probably produce 230V AC, converting it to battery (~50DC) would add 10% loss for every conversion. This is good to keep in mind, but it's not directly affecting the comparsion. Because yes, fossils have higher energy density then any batteries we have.

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Anton Isidore 7mo ago

Theoretical limit for internal combustion engine is effective of 46%.

In real life applications, where heat loss and other imperfections occurs it's more like 35%.

Here is excelent explanation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/98992

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