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Excerpt from Commercial Economy in Steam and Other Thermal Power-Plants: As Dependent Upon Physical Efficiency, Capital Charges and Working Costs The most elementary serious consideration of economic problems leads the practical engineer to recognize the ubiquitous influence of the speed-element. In the hands of the mathematicians thermo dynamics has been developed mainly as a static science and mainly as the science of temperature. This treatise insists strongly that the Mechanical Resilience produced by heat-action is alone of any ultimate value to the power-engineer, and condemns utterly the academic fetish of Reversibility as an ideal unworthy to be striven after and approximated to. It demonstrates that all Thermal action is Irreversible that only the dynamic element in complex thermodynamic action yields its due proportion of reversibility The all-important Speed-element in heat-power engineering acts wholly in the direction of Irreversibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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