Yeah, I think all of you are right about the fans not being enough and would look ridiculous. But the idea of charging it once and never having to charge it again is very good. If you were to make the energy by something else that turns constantly while driving would work. So what else on a car turns that doesn’t stop turning the axle. Hooking the axles to alternators or generators through belts and chains the supply would not stop.
Can you tell me if you think the Aptera electric car is efficient enough for you. At http://www.aptera.com it says it gets 270 miles per gallon equivalent.
I think the real answer would be a small hydrogen powered generator. The byproduct of combustion would be water. Harvest the water from the exhaust into a water tank and use electrolysis to reconvert into hydrogen. Run through a compressor and back into the hydrogen tank. Don’t use the motor for propulsion but for electricity generation to recharge the batteries. In addition use the braking system to reclaim lost energy as well. While the hydrogen that you generate would never keep up with continuous supply but would only be a way to extend range.
I have an idea. I just wanted to run it by you and get your thoughts.
Question: Have you ever rode a bike with a small electrical generator in the hub, or attached to the wheels?
These generators usually power small accessories like lights so on. However, could those same hub generators be attached to an electric car battery or electric car? What if they were bigger? The size of large wind generators?
Essentially, take a Toyota Prius, add the generators on every wheel. Is that crazy? Am i crazy? Have i missed something? I know that currently, the Toyota only has regenerative braking? Weird? Why not regenerating hubs? Why not?
Regeneration only works when the energy would otherwise be wasted. For regenerative braking the kinetic energy of the car would otherwise be converted to heat in the brakes and thus be wasted. This is the same general reason that the original poster’s idea of the wind turbines on a car won’t work. In the end the energy has to balance; there is no free energy in these types of self-contained systems.
OK, you struck a cord with me about the "wasted" energy and an idea that maybe someone (bigger than I) should look into. We have thousands, if not millions of diesel trucks (semi) traveling the roads everyday all averaging 4-6 mpg if that. They log millions of miles and that engine is turning wheels in the rear of that truck (wait for it…) what if we could design a DC motor using the driveshaft as the rotating center of the generator. As it is already spinning and in almost constant use, why not derive energy from this source. This in turn could power electric motors to "assist" the drive wheels. I don’t propose that we could power the truck with this but we could diminish the massive fuel consumption. GM toyed with the idea that it was actually more efficient to power 4 small motors (1 @ each wheel) than 1 large motor to move the whole car. Let’s take this and run with that idea. Add the electric motors to each of the rear drive wheels on a semi, powered by the drive shaft generator. If we could add even 10-15% fuel savings for ALL the tractor trailers in the US… I would think the additional weight added to this already massive truck would be more than compensated by the energy produced, don’t you think?
If you use a fan inside of the hybrid that is angled almost entirely in the direction of the wind that travels from the grill towards the back in a tube that is aerodynamic and your rotor is like that of one of those CD turning pieces that require little resistance and place hundred of small fans, again, almost parallel to the direction of the wind, you can probably build up enough electricity to keep the batteries charged without the need for one to plug the vehicle in.
There will be no more resistance than the typical aerodynamic design's drag, unless you shape the vehicle like a rocket in the front and back and smooth out the bottom of the vehicle, plus put aerodynamic covers in front of the wheels. There is, however, a new kind of electric generator out there that doesn't use water, solar, methane, or wind to produce electricity. I invented it, but cannot give it away, if someone hears about it, I'm sure they will go into greedy mode and try to steal my idea. Basically, it delivers more electricity than a Prius with waaaay more torque so that you can accelerate to a speed only touched by a Ferrari, without the need to ever plug in the vehicle to recharge the batteries.
I am currently working on remixing wind farms with this new technology called JP Green that enables the turning motion of a fan to accelerate to a speed only witnessed during wind storms that reach 100 miles per hour winds. Now, with this new machine, blackouts are a thing of the past. Hospital backup generators for blackouts, where there is no JP Green technology available to power cities, can now last thousands if not millions of times longer than the world's best emergency hospital backup generators.
Solar fields can produce electricity all night long multiplied by a hundred times the amount of electricity produced during a day with direct sunlight, plus it works all day. Again, I cannot say how this works, yet, but if you are interested in helping out with this by mass producing this machine, simply contact me and we can build one for Hoover Dam or Methane power plants that will bring in millions of times more electricity per year, consistently. Chuk replied, "What you want is a perpetual energy machine? This would violate the law of physics." Well, I guess he was wrong, because my machine does just that and it delivers a substantial amount of electricity.
Thanks and good luck to all of you!
Best Regards,
JP
Nova Alternative Energy Representative and inventor of the JP Green. 8)
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