Posted on 05/29/2016 11:16:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
OK, whose job is it to flip the battery?
Brilliant!
I wonder how frequently it must be flipped.
If you turn the knob to 11, a lot more often than if you had it at 2.
Of course, that COULD provide a lot of jobs to the unemployed and unemployable. I suppose Battery Flipper is better than Burger Flipper.
Seriously, figure out a way to incorporate this battery flipping technology into the wheels of a car so that they store electricity and then feed the energy back into the motor as needed.
This seems very interesting.
So I am imagining a car, powered by these, in which the entire battery will be on a massive pivot and every once in a while, the whole battery will then be spun over to the new direction.
By the driver. Manually, he or she will simply spin the battery over. Did I understand that correctly?
Very interesting. Bookmarked this, thanks.
Sounds like it is still a long way from development, but I like the idea.
B4L8r
Yep. My thought exactly...
Yes, every so often the battery would have to be inverted from its previous position.
Now how would they handle centrifugal forces, like going around curves, and directional changes like going up and down hills?..............
You’re not going to get more energy out then it takes to flip the battery. I cant see this producing enough power to do anything other than power a pocket calculator.
Haven't listened to this one in a while.
Yeah, it smells a little like perpetual motion.
If a car battery powers the car, and also powers the act of flipping the battery, then the power could be limitless (barring chemical degradation of the materials).
I don’t think the Thermodynamic gods will approve.
Leaks? Wouldnt want this to leak.
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Yeah. No.
Are we sure this wasn’t an April Fool’s Day item?
I know too much about Thermodynamics to think this is anything worth a damn. No sale.
You only get out a fraction of the energy you put in the system. The only energy in, after a time (after the initial chemical potential energy of the materials), would be the energy involved in flipping this thing over, which isn’t much.
I’m still waiting for that 100 mpg carburetor I read about 50 years ago.
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