[myself6]

Think about how a car operates and how the revolutions of an engine are controlled...

An alternator is spinning at the number of revolutions determined by the RPM of the engine. Pulleys and belts at work here... The only way to increase the revolutions on the alternator is to increase the RPM of the engine.

I don't know what kind of cars YOU guys drive, but the ones I drive GO FASTER when the RPM of the car increases (to a certain point that is).

THEREFORE... The electrical load on the alternator of a CAR will not increase the mechanical load on the engine directly. for the mechanical load of the engine to increase someone or something must make the engine work harder by making it either harder to make a revolution or revolve faster.

As we know, the alternator will not become harder to turn 2000 RPM as the electrical load increases so there will be no increase in the mechanical load of the engine.

[from occupied ga]

An alternator is spinning at the number of revolutions determined by the RPM of the engine. Pulleys and belts at work here... The only way to increase the revolutions on the alternator is to increase the RPM of the engine.>

Your statement that increasing the electrical draw on the alternator doesn't increase the power needed (and fuel needed) to turn it goes beyond stupidity.

If your idiotic statement were true, then you could hook an arbitrarily large electric motor to the alternator and run the car and the alternator both off the electric motor. This is called perpetual motion, and rational people don't believe in it.

OH and don't even both with more of your bs. I'm already broken my rule about arguing reality with drunks, religious wackos, NASA lovers, and other head cases

[Lloyd227]

"the alternator will not become harder to turn 2000 RPM as the electrical load increases..."

Actually, I believe the alternator most certainly becomes harder to turn as the electrical load increases.

I believe that's the precise point you've been called on in these discussions.

Cheers,
Lloyd