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Default Electric motor efficiency

Don Foreman wrote:


For given input power, efficiency is determined by losses: friction,
windage, current*resistance, hysteresis and eddy current.


So if someone needed a very efficent motor, what would they get using silver for the
windings? A couple percent?

Wes