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Originally Posted by ksa8907
I can't imagine how it would help. You'd have to put such restriction on the exhaust to build up enough pressure that the engine would start burning a fair amount of fuel just to compress/pump the exhaust.
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Turbocharged cars seem to be able to use the compressor to stuff more air in without prohibitive amounts of restriction on the exhaust. I could see there
might be a way to make it work.
The biggest problems would be heat, and gearing the 100K RPM of a compressor wheel down to something that a standard alternator or generator would work reasonably with.
Could be insurmountable problems, sure. But I don't think that warrants including this in with all the other unicorn poop.
-soD