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Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @01:24PM (#12080817)
mass per kilowatt hour. That is the magic number. While a gas turbine can be slightly over 52% efficient it weighs a lot. You can plot weight over kilowatt hours, which is useful since at small numbers of kilowatt hours batteries are a huge win, and then at some point you get a cross over where the fact that fuel is more energy dense it has compensated for the weight of the turbine and generator infrastructure.

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