Question: An inventor claims to have developed a heat engine that receives 700 kJ of heat from a source at 500 K and produces 300 kJ

An inventor claims to have developed a heat engine that receives 700 kJ of heat from a source at 500 K and produces 300 kJ of net work while rejecting the waste heat to a sink at 290 K. Is this a reasonable claim? Why?

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