Posted on 01/11/2009 2:00:21 PM PST by Steelfish
“Idiot reporters print perpetual motion as straight news with disturbing regularity.”
I don’t think the majority of them ever had any science classes since they studied rocks and butterfly’s in the first grade.
It must really suck to be scientifically illiterate in a technical world.
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Heh.
Check out their bio’s.
I’m thinking of starting a league of engineers to review these press stories. Here’s my idea:
First, we drink a whole lot of beer.
Then we climb up onto a tall building as the alternative energy yahoos are holding a parade/rally below us...
I have looked at this possibility for years, ever since it was mentioned to me many years ago by the late Dr. Felix Sebba, but I am not convinced that you can get enough solar power to do the job without an enormous array of solar panels and the kind of sunshine that is not available in a lot of places.
Is that using their wind turbine or just the solar cell?
The speed of light?
Another Perpetual Motion scheme?
This is almost as good as the Hinged Hammers mounted on an axle, depending on the inertia of the hammers falling forward as the hammer head passed top dead center, making the motion continue by the impulse of the falling hammer.
“Cut away the wind before, and fill it in behind.”
I’m in!
“After all, military aircraft do this too with generators powered by the airflow. “
Those generators provide emergency power to things like flight controls. They DO NOT keep the aircraft in the air.
***Supercar to use wind power to reach amazing speeds A revolutionary new supercar will be able to hit a top speed of 155mph - using wind power.****
Nothing new. About 140 years ago some interprising men put a sail on a railroad hand car and went west. They out ran attacking Indians and made it clear to Denver, maybe farther. It has been quit a while since I read of it.
That’s not wind. The headline is wrong.
Also, solar power is what’s pushing the vehicle. It would be extremely inefficient and stupid to use the airflow to push a turbine, unless it is used ONLY when the vehicle is going downhill (and needs no power to go downhill).
But in that case, a simple generator that charges batteries would make much more sense.
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Right. And couple that with charging the batteries when applying the brakes and perhaps more efficiency could be had, assuming a cost efficient, lasting battery can be developed. Not a pm machine but a simple recapturing of some already expended energy.
I expect innovations in hybrids to continue. I drive a standard 4 cyclinder PT but would be open to a hybrid....several years from now when they are more efficient and I can buy a good used one.
those guys are 18 years old...lol. This is what happens when you replace physics classes with cultural anthropology and social sciences.
Ridiculously stupid article. But then, I always that reporters knew absolutely nothing about anything.
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