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What makes output energy less than input energy?
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What makes output energy less than input energy?

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Machine Efficiency makes output energy less than input energy
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part of input energy is wasted

it is used to increase the entropy of the surrounding

therefore the useful energy output is necessarily smaller than the energy input

in other words the efficiency of heat engine is always less than hundred percent

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