Would this work?

Question

If someone were to install severall wind turbines on the hood of a carm and just used a little bit of fuel to get it started, thw turbines would spin supplying endless energy to a car. Wouldn't that work?

Okay, so they can just be in the front bumpers.

Answer 1

Remember! Equal and opposite reaction?

Go to www.uspto.gov and enter patent number 5,430,333.

There you will see pollution free electric power able to be built to be more than 1000 times that of our largest Nuclear Reactor!

Plant Vogtle, our last Nuclear Reactor makes only 930 megawatts.

The first generation “baby” power plants from this new technology makes 1000 megawatts.

Vogtle cost $10 billion, 30 years ago.

These new power plants cost $2.5 billion in today’s money.

Vogtle is about to be retired, as are all our other Nuclear plants.

All the fueled power plants only have about a 30 life span.

The power plant design you will see at patent office site live well 100 years.

They burn NO fuel what so ever!

It costs more to demolish a Nuclear plant than to build one new!

The spent Nuclear fuel has a 25,000 year storage problem with no solution yet, and a tremendous cost that defies accurate estimation due to the very long time frame.

Nuclear power has been estimated to cost more $50.00 per kilowatt hour when the demolition and storage costs are applied.

Guess who gets to foot that bill, the tax payer!

Being fuel-less the design you see at the patent office has a cost of about 3 cents per kilowatt hour.

Coal fired power plants make 8 lbs of air pollution to run 100 watt light bulb for an hour.

There are NO cost estimations for the clean up of all that pollution.

We keep seeing in the news about coal miners dieing in cave-ins.

With the high cost of electric power being hidden for so long by our politicians using their abysmally poor judgment to allow this to happen in the first place. Then compounding the problem with their constant lying about it to all of us, and the problem now coming to light despite their best efforts to lie and hide it. We are now stuck with the costs of their abysmally poor judgment after their being “paid” by big power to lie to us about the scope of this problem for decades.

Call all your elected official state, local, and federal. Tell them you want the pollution free electric power you saw at the patent office web site! Tell them to get off their assets and get moving on making pollution free and cheaper electric power happen ASAP!

Or swallow their lies so more until our nation is so polluted our children die younger than ever before. Cancer is running rampant everywhere, it comes from all the pollution our elected officials are allowing to be spewed into “our” environment every day. It time to put pollution into it’s proper place, “THE PAST”!

We now have the technology, we can build it, it’s 100% clean, and the electric power is cheaper than ANY fueled power plant.

We could run all our cars, trucks, trains, buses, whatever on 100% clean electric power, if our government would just get off their assets and as Nike says"Just do it"!

Answer 2

This is a very interesting question. Perpetual motion machines aren't possible. Every proposed perpetual motion scheme has some flaw. So it's safe to assume that you can't turn off the gasoline engine after coming up to speed and keep moving forever via the electricity generated by your wind turbine/generator. But the interesting question is whether the amount of electrical power generated by the turbine is always less than the additional power that you need to consume due to the presence of the turbines and the increased aerodynamic drag that other responders have mentioned above. If the power generated by the turbine were greater than the power lost due to increased drag, then the car could be made more efficient, without violating any natural laws that make perpetual motion machines impossible. As far I know creating greater efficiency via your wind turbine/electric generator scheme does not violate any laws of physics.
To summarize: No this scheme won't produce a car that can keep running without supplying fuel. But some variation on this scheme might possibly reduce the rate at which the vehicle slows down while coasting, and hence might enable the creation of a more fuel-efficient vehicle. (Just putting more air pressure in your tires makes the car more efficient. So who knows, maybe the wind turbine scheme could help as well.)

Answer 3

No, Dana got it.
The turbines would spin endlessly if the car kept the same pace but the drag from the turbines, and the cars normal friction, will slow the pace of the car until it eventually stops.
You also have an energy source (the fuel for the car) which sustain losses as not all energy goes to the promotion of a forward motion of the car. For instance, a lot of energy is lost as heat. You loose energy in the gas to gain energy from the turbines. But the whole transition causes great losses in energy due to friction (including drag from the turbines) and heat produced (the engine gets hot), and other areas.

Answer 4

In order for this to work the turbines need to be flush with the surface of the car to reduce drag. If you could figure a way to make the turbines in the body of the vehicle so they are level and do not leak or let in cold you might be on the right track. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Is this powering the turbines from the force of air from the motion of the vehicle? or from the force of existing air currents?

In the second case, if the wind dies down, you're stalled. In the first case the energy to move the vehicle would be greater than the energy harvested from the motion through still air.

Answer 6

No, because the turbine would increase the drag of the car.

Answer 7

why not just charge your car from turbines on your roof or in your yard instead of them being attatched to the car itself?
But good for you for trying to think outside the box!

Answer 8

Yes, in theory but first extensive testing and experimenting would needed to be done to decreases the amount of drag that this would intially cause on the car.