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Originally Posted by Xist
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.
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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?