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To the OP, as you hopefully already know, the Patent office will inform you on any encumbrance to prior art. If you used an attorney, hopefully he did a thorough "prior art" search and made his suggestions accordingly. So if he felt your idea was different enough to send in, hopefully he was being diligent and honest in his opinions.
To Nihomike, there are many incorporating electric and turbine hybridizing including myself. I designed a turbine engine, which is only turbine in methodology, coupled to an electric motor which can share the workload at any given percentage. Ours is going into a motorcycle. We've built prototypes and now are incorporating the working prototype combination in a 2002 SV650s frame.
That's all I'll get into. Many large companies including the labs here at Sandia are working on variations of these ideas. It's always a rush to get the idea into some area of marketability which always requires extensive testing first and lots of time. Our devices, unfortunately are destined into government use only. Getting our devices and power systems into the market place of the general public gets incredibly cost prohibitive, until they have been utilized somewhere else first.
Good luck OP, it's a very difficult road to any kind of financial return.
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