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Old 09-16-2011, 08:25 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by slowmover View Post
At what cruise speed? (All in all I like the thread, thanks).
If I remember correctly when I read a report on it a few years ago it was something like 140 knots. But they did say that this test was by no means optimized, it was just the cheapest way to prove the concept. I'm sure it would work at lower speeds too.

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Aren't there vortices being generated on wing tips (due to lift) ? If so, it would beneficial to tap into that unused energy for power generation. A very precise application, in my opinion, which would be hard to mimic on a car.
Actually most cars generate a pair of vortices from the c pillar

see page 9 here

http://www.grandmarq.net/blaze/Blaze...of%20Autos.pdf
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