A thermal power plant uses steam at 710 K to generate electricity and the waste steam leaves at 341 K. One of the plant engineers claims that 390 3 of electricity are generated for every 600 J of fuel energy that are used to heat the steam. Is this claim possible according to the Carnot efficiency and the second law of thermodynamics?

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