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Cooling - and overheating

AUS-MED-M2 · The Engine · AUS-MED-M2-A The diesel, and what actually breaks

Combustion produces far more heat than the engine can turn into work. Most of it goes out of the exhaust; the rest has to be taken away, or the engine cooks. On a boat, the heat sink is the water you are floating in.

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