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Old 04-19-2012, 04:15 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Could their system produce an electric vehicle with significantly extended range? No--not unless they are somehow capturing energy that would otherwise have been turned into motion or wasted as heat. And if they're simply attaching a pulley and generator to the electric motor, then that isn't the case.

But, I'm no electrician or physicist. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this has "law of conservation of energy" written all over it.
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