Question #5f3ca

1 Answer
Aug 5, 2015

We can try to reduce heat dissipated.

Explanation:

Considering that:
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You can see that the efficiency depends heavily upon the heat #Q_2# discarded into the cold reservoir so that the efficiency will always be #<1# (or #1-#something)..
If we want to increase efficiency we can try to reduce as much as possible #Q_2#, for example, reducing friction and heat dispersion.
We will never be able to make it zero though!!! So our efficiency will always be less than 1 (less than 100% which means we will never reach total conversion of heat into work).