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Default OT Semantics of "2-cycle" versus "2-stroke"
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On 8/4/2012 3:32 PM, Twibil wrote:
On Aug 4, 9:25 am, Meyer wrote:


Thermodynamics is conspicuously missing from descriptions of electric
motors.

Um, so you weren't aware that electric motors get nice and hot while
in use?

Is that because a motor is not an engine?

Nope.

Wasted energy.

So isn't heat generated from a gasoline or diesel motor. Do you think
that all of the heat dissipated from a gas or diesel motor is somehow
used?
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