Dec
07
2009
could you use small windmill like generators in the hub of each wheel on a car for recycled power?
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use battery power to get started then the motion of the car itself generates the power from then on. oh yeah,electromagnetic propultion?
there will be no (thermodynamic) violations if the excess energy is stored and sold or donated to the grid
Could not you think of a better place than a wheel hub to add more complications? The small windmill should acquire its energy only from natural wind and never on the expense of car motion.
It would be better installed at the top of your house.
I wonder if you ever heard of a Dynamo? the battery is only used to start the engine and aslong as the car the moving the battery is idle. Hence when you push the car it starts even if the battery is dead
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One can certainly do that. Except that the Laws of Thermodynamics cannot be violated. Such a car will consume more fuel equivalent to the power generated and the efficiency of the power train.
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You could but the energy of the "wind" would be extracted from the car’s motion, provided by the engine and paid for by the fuel consumption. So you would just be reducing the car’s performance. If such windmills could be arranged to function only when the car was running downhill or otherwise braking were necessary, it could make some sense but there are far more effective and much simpler ways (already in use) of regenerating with the braking energy.
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Could not you think of a better place than a wheel hub to add more complications? The small windmill should acquire its energy only from natural wind and never on the expense of car motion.
It would be better installed at the top of your house.
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