

| Subject: | Re: Better Mileage Anyone? (without going ala Lilley) |
| From: | Mark Dorm |
| Date: | Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:41:06 PDT |
We're that inefficient??? So what if there is a way to increase our own efficiency - better lymph node flow through deep breathing - better use of the body via feldenkrais training.... which also frees the breathing... they say were engineered to last 120 years... some people once put some chicken cells in a pristine environment and they lived so far outside the normal range of expectations that they ended up killing the cells to end the experiment.... >From: James W Wagner <wagner01@erols.com> > >I think I remember that an internal combustion engine is about 23% >efficient >(work out/energy in), nearly the same as the human body. > >James >Mark Dorm wrote: > > > The heat (that isn't converted to motion) is still lost energy - its a >lack > > of efficiency - its energy released from the fuel that moves out into >the > > environment - I forget but isn't a gas engine only about 40 or 60 >percent > > efficient in its transfer of energy from fuel to motion - wouldn't we >better > > off measuring the speed of the piston upon explosion - and if theres an > > upper limit for how fast a particular piston can move then won't a >hotter > > spark (that goes beyond that limit) just result in more heat being lost >to > > the system > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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