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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
Thanks for the list but I am not sure that it progresses the discussion much.
As I said, most ICE cooling drag values vary from 4-5 per cent up to about 14 per cent, with just a very few cars down around 0-1 per cent, and only one car that I am aware of actually developing measured thrust from its cooling system.
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* We'll take you to task in documenting you're assertion. How about 1,000 examples? That might begin to qualify as a statistically significant database.
* The 1983 Ford Probe-IV cooling system produced thrust. If memory serves me, the fans could push the car to 3-miles per hour. However, it was not 'passive' thrust, requiring an ICE to turn an alternator, to produce the electricity which would ultimately power the electric motor-driven, high-static-pressure fans; for both engine cooling and air conditioning. Or stored, ICE-derived, battery power.
* So there's context. The complete entropic chain of custody must be present in the total energy budget of the vehicle.