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by aerodude 2847 days ago
Combined cycle gas turbines are actually higher efficiency than this. The current state-of-the-art is somewhere around 63% thermal efficiency.
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True, but those are usually not on a moving vehicle and have the luxury of being as heavy and big as desired. Engines on ships instead are limited by weight and size, engines on cars/trucks a little bit more, engines on planes much more and at the edge of technology we have the engines on rockets which have to be as light as humanly possible whilst still providing high thrust-specific fuel consumption