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Old 05-01-2011, 12:54 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by EuroBalt View Post
today while at school i got to thinking of how to charge an electric car without the use of gas. what if you where to take the air that normaly cools the engine and have it forced into what would be like a turbo that spools turning the generator to charge that batteries. tho i dont think this would work to well at city speeds but what do you guys think?
So we take a funnel and put it where the air used flow though the radiator. High pressure. Run it across the turbo/turbine, out of there it returns to a funnel in reverse that lets the air return to the back of the car. Where there should be low pressure giving us the highest delta P we can get. Should work.

How much energy we could get, that is the question.
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