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Originally Posted by arsenal
So why couldn't you do essentially the same thing with small turbines powered by the air forced into them via hood scoop or side intakes into electricity?
This isn't breaking any laws of thermodynamics. It's taking currently working technology and applying it in a different fashion.
And where did I say that the energy produced from this would be equal to or greater than energy used to produce it?
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Re read what I said.
Yes it could add something to the batter if it was used ONLY WHILE STOPPING. If you tried to have wind turbines producing power while driving, it would be a losing proposition, you would drain the batteries faster and it would reduce the range. If you think running it the whole time will increase your range, that would require producing more energy than it's using.
To answer your question about where you said it would produce more energy than it uses, I refer you to what you said below:
I guess you could put intakes or a hood scoop on the vehicle to convert wind into electricity while you are driving. I don't think you could generate enough electricity to keep the batteries charged though. You probably could extend the range of the vehicle by about 50 miles though
Using it while driving + extending the range = getting more energy than it is using = a trip to thermodynamics jail
As for using a wind turbine while breaking?
There is a fininte ammount of energy to recover, and I'm thinking that a mechanical linkage to the road via the tires (which can bring a generator up to speed almost insantly) is a much more effiecient method of recovering this power than through a wind turbine which would take time to come up to speed and considering the breaking time, I doubt it would be as efficeint as the current system wich is linked directly to the wheels.