Which risk increases when the Carnot cycle operates irreversibly?

💡 Explanation

Operating the Carnot cycle irreversibly leads to additional entropy generation because internal disequilibria prevent minimizing entropy change during heat transfert, therefore, irreversibility increases entropy generated, rather than the cycle achieving ideal efficiency, which only occurs in reversible Carnot cycles.

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