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Which of the following is not a reason that power plants are unable to achieve 100 percent efficiency?

A. Entropy increases.
B. The amount of work obtained from a process never has work needing to go into it.
C. Heat is often a waste product.
D. Not all energy is converted heat from chemical reactions into useful work.

User Bryanjez
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I believe it's A. Entropy increases.
User El Kopyto
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I think it might be A but I'm not 100% sure. Sorry if I'm wrong
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