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Old 03-30-2016, 03:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
I think someone mentioned this idea recently and the answer is that turbos spin far faster than alternators, so much so that it would not work.
I'd be interested in figuring out a way around that...

Turbos spin at 80,000 - 200,000 rpm, right? And an alternator spins at about 1/50th that speed?

So wouldn't we just need some way of stepping down the speed of the input to the alternator?
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