The evil Empire from Star Wars is running a factory that manufactures droids. The factory is...

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The evil Empire from Star Wars is running a factory thatmanufactures droids. The factory is powered by a heat engine, whichuses a hot reservoir at 650 Kelvin and a cold reservoir at 450Kelvin, and which (somehow!) operates at the theoretical maximumeciency for a heat engine. The Empire must supply the engine with1000 kilojoules of heat for every droid it wants to produce. Agroup of rebels decide to sabotage the factory. They manage to coolthe hot reservoir down to a temperature of 500 K, which makes theengine less ecient. After this change, how many joules of heat mustthe Empire supply to the engine in order to produce one droid?

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