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Old 04-21-2010, 03:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
You've got major problems with that idea, mainly that all the oxygen in the intake air should (in a perfect world) have been converted to CO2 in the original combustion. So you pipe that to the intake of a second engine, and the fuel you feed it won't burn.
I was thinking more along the lines of exhaust + air not solely exhaust.

And yes it does seem a little Rube Goldbergish, but it seemed it might be better than trying to run the alternator off a turbo.
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