Self powering electric cars

[aychamo_aycono]

Hey guys

I'm on the shitter right now, and I'm sure this idea is going to get me flamed and everything. But what if you had an electric car, and on top of it you added some type of windmill thing (or whatever.) When you drive down the interstate there is so much wind hitting the car, so the thing would spin, could it help supplement recharging of the car's batteries? Or is this an issue where the windmill wouldn't make enough power to compensate for the drag on the vehicle it would cause?

Or you could do like some vehicles have the "induction" systems to bring air over the breaks, have the windmills in there, etc

[Grooverider]

Please obey the laws of thermonuclear dynamics.

[Sunder]

IBTR

[Warrian]

Something like this? (btw it looks fucking retarded)

[Warrian]

Originally Posted by Sunder

IBTR

Shut the fuck up.

[Kasi]

I'm pretty sure that the added drag would more than counteract any gains made from having such an unwieldly system. Plus of course the danger if there is an accident and having something that far out from the vehicle might work as an unintended projectile/weapon.

However this did make me think of a pretty good article I read in Wired last week. Some genius from Israel (Shai Agassi) is working pretty heavily with a new company as well as several governments (Israel, Denmark, Hawaii state government) about electric cars. It's conceivable that in 10-15 years gas stations will start to be replaced by electrical stations where one can switch out your battery at a moment's notice. That should be able to wean us off the major use of oil, that being cars. Since there is a lot of ways one can get electricity but a lot less ways one can run a combustion engine. The article link btw is Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

[Sunder]

Originally Posted by Warrian

Shut the fuck up.

Take your own advise. In fact, stick a gun in your mouth. It would make this world a better place.

[Warrian]

Originally Posted by Sunder

Take your own advise. In fact, stick a gun in your mouth. It would make this world a better place.

Why are you even posting or attempting to be funny? No one wants to read your shit. Stop being an unoriginal shitwad and get the fuck out.

[Sunder]

Originally Posted by Warrian

Why are you even posting or attempting to be funny? No one wants to read your shit. Stop being an unoriginal shitwad and get the fuck out.

Ooooh. Internet tough guy alert!

WHY MUST YOU BE SO MEAN TO ME??

Seriously, stfu.

[Tuco]

Aychamo won't remember this thread when he sobers up.

[Chips]

I met a guy a couple weeks ago who showed me his car engine. Basically he set a little water tank with some metal plates that was powered by the battery at start up and then run by the alternator during motion. He said that his car still used gas right now because he lived in the metro area which required him to take yearly emission checks and that he could not shut off the gas valve completely without setting off the computer.

He stated with the hydrogen created by the water tank he was able to double his MPG and should be able to completely run off hydrogen without the gas.

Hes working on a system to capture the water formed after leaving the tailpipe to be pumped back into the first water tank.

[Tuco]

Originally Posted by Chips

I met a guy a couple weeks ago who showed me his car engine. Basically he set a little water tank with some metal plates that was powered by the battery at start up and then run by the alternator during motion. He said that his car still used gas right now because he lived in the metro area which required him to take yearly emission checks and that he could not shut off the gas valve completely without setting off the computer.

He stated with the hydrogen created by the water tank he was able to double his MPG and should be able to completely run off hydrogen without the gas.

Hes working on a system to capture the water formed after leaving the tailpipe to be pumped back into the first water tank.

You're so full of shit.

[Jait]

There's no free lunch.




Even on the shitter.

[Zarniwoop]

Originally Posted by aychamo_aycono

Hey guys

I'm on the shitter right now, and

You better check the bowl because I think you just shit out your brain.

[Eomer]

Originally Posted by Chips

I met a guy a couple weeks ago who showed me his car engine. Basically he set a little water tank with some metal plates that was powered by the battery at start up and then run by the alternator during motion. He said that his car still used gas right now because he lived in the metro area which required him to take yearly emission checks and that he could not shut off the gas valve completely without setting off the computer.

He stated with the hydrogen created by the water tank he was able to double his MPG and should be able to completely run off hydrogen without the gas.

Hes working on a system to capture the water formed after leaving the tailpipe to be pumped back into the first water tank.

Is this a troll? It really has to be. Because we've already discussed this at least once in the past. If it were so goddamn simple to slap a water tank and electrolysis kit in to a regular car to "increase mileage", every fucking car manufacturer would have been doing it for the past 80 years. Electrolysis and molecular hydrogen are not new inventions, we've had them for over a fucking century now.

The fact of the matter is, such a system would lower your fuel economy, and any asshole with a basic knowledge of high school chemistry and physics should know this. This isn't high falluting science, this is quite basic chemistry.

Originally Posted by Aycahmo

Hey guys

Listen man, I don't want to sound like an asshole here, but what's your excuse? Were you drunk? Stoned? Low blood sugar? What in the fuck were you thinking with this post? Most people I'd just laugh it off, there's a lot of people out there that aren't very educated, and there's quite a few that even though they supposedly are, don't show it very often. But you are a fucking doctor with what, 7+ years of post secondary education? You MUST have taken some basic inorganic chemistry and physics in high school and the first year or two of post secondary. Have you completely forgotten every basic concept of those courses? Or what?