First of all: What will removing the alternater doing for FE?
I was thinking of removing the alternator and install something else. I've seen someone with 2 accu's and a solar pannel. But i think that's not efficient enough. Also got an garage so... no sun there
Than i thought. What's in the car that's useless... heat
Now we get rid of the heat whit the radiator in front. But we also could use that heat. Heat equals energie. So i thought again (not getting an headake) about somethink like a sterling engine. I know sterling engine will only get 50% of the Carnot-Faktor but could it be enough for an alternator.
Also the heat from the exhaust could be used .
Good thing is that is don't have an A/C.
Bad thing is that i always hear music
But were to find a small sterling engine?
For testing i thougt about to let the radio run fisrt on the stering and when that's doing good i will use it for the whole car.
Someone did this before? Or someone have an other idea how to use the heat for making power?
/edit somebody tried something whit a Thermogenerator? Just peltier-elements the other way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenerator It's called Seebeck-Effect. Transforming heat to energie. But don't know if i simple can use Peltier-elements.