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The Quality of Energy:<br />

The carnot efficiency implies that, the higher the temperature TH, the<br />

higher the efficiency a<strong>nd</strong> hence the higher the quality of energy.<br />

The fraction of heat that can be converted to<br />

work as a function of source temperature.<br />

The higher the temperature of the<br />

thermal energy, the higher its<br />

quality.

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