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Old 02-27-2012, 10:23 AM   #87 (permalink)
payne171
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At some point, common sense has to play a role in your thought process serial. You dismissed a technology based on a few calculations made after reading the article. At least one of the engineers on the project was listed as a doctor; don't you think he is capable of those same calculations? You are talking about maybe gaining one horsepower as being feasible, but a device that can put out 6kw isn't? I am sure it won't put out as much power at light load, but that is fixed with more battery.

Come to think of it, look at your own post. A turbocharger is more efficient than a supercharger because it uses exhaust energy instead of crankshaft energy to power the forced induction. Why does that efficiency difference suddenly disappear when one uses exhaust energy to drive a generator instead of the crankshaft?

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