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valerie

Why has no one invented a wind turbine car that would generate electric power to run on?

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Submitted by valerie on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 11:45.

khooper
Re: wind turbine cars

A car alternator is a bad choice for a wind generator. The efficiency
in normal use is never more than about 60 percent. The bearings (starter solenoid) are too
small to reliably support large blades (more than about 1.5 meters
diameter).


Tue, 12/16/2008 - 17:09

jstack6
jstack6's picture
Re: wind turbine cars

Because it won't work with the wind turbine on the car.  As many already know the energy to turn the wind generator creates a push backward. That slows the car moving forward.

Now if you put the wind generator in your home area and have great wind, you can run your home AND store the energy in your rechargeable EV. Then you have a wind powered vehicle.

You can also use Solar or small hydro depending on what is best in your area. Off setting OIL at $3-4 a gallon pays off the system 3 times faster that running your home.

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Tue, 03/04/2008 - 14:00