RE: [now non-roc]Re: Radiator Fan Question

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Yeah, that's going to fly...if perpetual motion was actually possible,
wouldn't electricity be free?  This guy has a few loose screws, or at least
no background in the fundamentals of physics.  If a fan could produce enough
power to extend the battery range (which means the fan by itself can power
the car, because in order to add power to the system faster than you're
using it, the fan has to be producing more power than you use), we'd all be
driving air-powered cars today, and you wouldn't hear talk of all the
expensive technologies like hybrids and fuel cells.

I built and raced solar-powered cars in college, so I can say from
experience this guy is a nut.  We used to get people coming up to us all the
time asking why we don't just use a tire to drive a generator and drag it
behind the car.  It's the same concept.

Aaron
'84 Scirocco - Woo-hoo!
'70 Bug - hibernating
'87 Nissan truck - Soon to be for sale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Ewan Hopkins
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:24 AM
> To: green536@hotmail.com; tberk@mindspring.com; e@sbbs.se
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: [now non-roc]Re: Radiator Fan Question
>
>
> This reminds me of a news item I saw recently where a guy in
> Scotland has
> supposedly developed a system for an electric car which is
> basically a fan
> generator in the engine bay, hooked-up to the car's battery
> cells.  He
> reckons that, above 30-40mph, the generator produces enough
> electricity to
> usefully extend the range of the car. He's installed a
> prototype into a
> Honda electric car and he's apparently trying to get together
> the funding to
> exploit this idea commercially.
>
>
> Ewan Hopkins...
>
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>
> >From: "Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>
> >To: tberk@mindspring.com, e@sbbs.se
> >CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: Re: Radiator Fan Question
> >Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:21:28 PST
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Here's the follow up question;
> >>
> >>At high speed does the fan's freewheeling actually create energy
> >>output back into the 12 volt system?
> >
> >Unfortunately it would only do this if you had the fan
> switch bypassed ;)
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >Chris DeLong
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