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Old 14th Jan 2010, 07:05
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Not sure. Diesels are dirt cheap and they work often enough to be useful, especially if you have more than one

There was a well known "innovative" company (my shares in it were down 99% when I sold them ) which tried to take on this market and totally failed. They did develop some generator technology which can work at the high RPM that you get out of a turbine and are trying to sell that, AFAIK.

I suspect the existing engines will see most of us out...

100kW in 20kg would, assuming a small package and even high efficiency (say 50%) mame an impressive space heater You'd need quite some airflow to get rid of that 100kW loss when trying to make a 100kW real output.
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