How Could Violating Kelvin-Planck Lead to a Breach of Clausius's Statement?

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The discussion centers on the implications of violating the Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics, which asserts that no system can operate in a thermodynamic cycle to deliver net work while receiving heat from a single thermal reservoir. If this statement were false, it would allow for a scenario where the Clausius statement could be breached, indicating that heat could spontaneously flow from a cooler body to a hotter body without work input. The key equations referenced include the net work output, W_net = Q_h - Q_c, which illustrates the relationship between heat transfer and work in thermodynamic cycles.

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Show that if the Kelvin Planck statement of the 2nd law were not true,a violation of the Clausius statement would be possible.

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Please confirm if I am correct

Kelvin Planck statement says that it is impossible for any system to operate in thermodynamic cycle and deliver a net amount of work to its surroudnings while receiving energy by heat transfer from a single thermal reservoir.
Qcool>0 and efficiency <1
Kelvin Planck statement is not true because you can't the net amount of work to its surroundings while receiving energy by heat transfer from a single thermal reservoir.

we know the second law of thermodyanics cycle is that you have hot reservior and cool reservoir. and you can have work output from the hot reservoir by extract heat from and reject heat to cool reservoir.

W_net=Q_h - Q_c
 
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