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Old 11-21-2014, 09:59 PM   #12
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Instead of a shaft (100% conversion efficiency), you are using a pump and a turbine which has considerable losses through flow viscosity and "leakage" at the pump and turbine. It would be better to use an electric generator and motor pair which would have maybe 85% efficiency.
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