[3-Wheeler]

Hi TallDude,

Sometimes for the sake of description, I like to take an example of an approach and size it large to an extreme, to see if the idea is worth pursuing or not.

In your example, we are using air that is passing by our vehicle to move another object, namely a fan blade.

Let's take this example to an extreme....

Picture a wind turbine mounted on top of our vehicle. We are moving through the air at let's say, 50 mph. The wind turbine on the top of our vehicle has three blades that are each 5 feet long, and will catch quite a bit of air while moving at this speed.

The blades will generate quite a bit of electricity for some type of use on our car, and this is the good part. However, those same blades will tend to make our motor in the car, work harder and use more gas to move the car forward.

Since we have not invented perpetual motion machines yet, the turbine mounted on the roof will always take more energy in, in the form of air drag, than it gives back out, in the form of electric energy.

Now we should mention that stationary wind generators that are mounted to the earth are useful, because even though they are not 100% energy efficient, they still take the free wind and convert some of that energy into electricity for our use later on.

Mounting this same wind generator on our car however does not give the same results that we are looking for in this case.

Thus we are better off making the air flow paths through and around our moving car bodies, as clean and efficient as possible.

Maybe you take some of your fan idea, and apply that to the free heat that is already in the engine compartment, and use that to propel the vehicle forward. And as you know, anytime there is excess heat, there is also expanded air that be used to make this happen. Just a thought for your next invention.

Jim.