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Derek Broughton wrote:
Don't CFs dim with age?


Yes, they do, in fact their lifetime is based not on loss of
functionality, but on reaching some percentage of nominal output.

Can we then expect the relative efficiency to
improve over time?


No, that would make relative efficiency _drop_ over time.