Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Horsepower

["Greg Teiber" <wolfe19@megsinet.net>]

Efficancy or not.  the power output is STILL the power output. As I said before horesepower is horespower.  It's not as if it can be faked.  And Efficancy isn't really of a concern.  Power output is just that.  

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On 1/27/00, at 4:29 PM, Dave Everett wrote: 

>At 20:59 26-01-00 EST, SeaLordOne@aol.com wrote:
>>Teammates,
>>
>>Please help me with this one.  According to an article in BOAT/U.S. Magazine 
>>(January 2000, pages 24-25), electric motors somehow provide three times the 
>>performance of internal combustion engines.  How can this be?  Horsepower is 
>>horsepower is horsepower, isn't it?
>>
>I think the article should say 'efficiency'. In an ICE the efficiency is
>about 30% but you can get electric motors with efficiencies of 98% and
>70-90% is not uncommon.
>
>Dave Everett