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Old 11-22-2014, 12:48 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by serialk11r View Post
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.

That idea has a familiar ring to it.
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