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by cedws 457 days ago
What’s the catch with the Carnot engine? If if’s real then surely this would be a global news worthy breakthrough?
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> Carnot is targeting the hardest to abate sectors including [long haul] marine [transportation], heavy-duty vehicles and primary off grid power.

Even if great advances were being made, these are not very interesting sectors to the vast majority of people and the industries have massive inertia. Presumably Carnot's therefore unlikely to be grabbing headlines.

But such an improvement in efficiency would surely reduce fuel costs, which matter a lot to consumers, though maybe not in the US where it’s cheap.