Brownian Ratchet: Carnot Cycle Efficiency Explained

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In feynman's description for the ratchet pawl system he gets the efficiency for the system to be same as he efficiency in the carnot cycle. I am not able to understand or if its correct that the process could be visualized as carnot cycle. Pls explain.
 
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