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Supercar to use wind power to reach amazing speeds
Daily Telegraph ^ | January 11, 2009

Posted on 01/11/2009 2:00:21 PM PST by Steelfish

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. By Daily Telegraph Reporter 11 Jan 2009 The new environmentally-friendly high performance car was designed in California The Formula AE car will use a solar-powered battery to get it moving but will then use the airflow passing over the vehicle to power a turbine. It will be able to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in less than four seconds and is expected to cost around £100,000 when it hits the market.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cantwork; fraud; perpetualmotion; physics; transportation
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To: Dinsdale

“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.


21 posted on 01/11/2009 2:20:55 PM PST by EEDUDE
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To: douginthearmy
I know it sounds like a perpetual motion machine, but it seems to me rather than they're recapturing some of the energy that would be lost otherwise. After all, military aircraft do this too with generators powered by the airflow.
22 posted on 01/11/2009 2:21:17 PM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven and proud to be a Coast Guard Auxiliarist)
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To: kc8ukw
"The added current generated from the wind just helps a bit"

Not in this universe.

Not really related but it came to mind: Say you travel from point A to point B. They are 100 miles apart and it takes you an hour to travel the distance. Your average speed was 100 mph.

Now say you are going to return to point A from point B and you want your speed for the entire round trip to average 200 mph. How fast must you travel from point B to point A to make that happen?


23 posted on 01/11/2009 2:21:43 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: EEDUDE

Heh.

http://formulaae.com/#/Home/

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...


24 posted on 01/11/2009 2:26:40 PM PST by NVDave
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To: kc8ukw

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.


25 posted on 01/11/2009 2:27:38 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: I see my hands

Is that using their wind turbine or just the solar cell?


26 posted on 01/11/2009 2:27:55 PM PST by american_ranger (Never ever use DirecTV)
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To: Rebelbase
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27 posted on 01/11/2009 2:29:47 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: I see my hands

The speed of light?


28 posted on 01/11/2009 2:30:27 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: Steelfish

There is only ONE Supercar!

29 posted on 01/11/2009 2:31:47 PM PST by Rocko (America First -- 0bama Last)
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To: Steelfish

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.”


30 posted on 01/11/2009 2:34:00 PM PST by alloysteel (We have been taken prisoner by the American Cong. Endure. Freedom will come.)
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To: NVDave

I’m in!


31 posted on 01/11/2009 2:35:16 PM PST by EEDUDE
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To: GAB-1955

“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.


32 posted on 01/11/2009 2:36:48 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Steelfish

***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.


33 posted on 01/11/2009 2:40:40 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: Steelfish

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.


34 posted on 01/11/2009 2:41:43 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: american_ranger
Answer is at the top of my FR home page.

35 posted on 01/11/2009 2:42:00 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: GAB-1955
I know it sounds like a perpetual motion machine, but it seems to me rather than they're recapturing some of the energy that would be lost otherwise. After all, military aircraft do this too with generators powered by the airflow.

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.

36 posted on 01/11/2009 2:42:14 PM PST by citizen (Fascism: All persons, capital & activities exist to support the will & best interests of the State.)
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To: NVDave

those guys are 18 years old...lol. This is what happens when you replace physics classes with cultural anthropology and social sciences.


37 posted on 01/11/2009 2:43:50 PM PST by willyd (My Driver's License is under Obama's Birth Certificate officer.)
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To: Steelfish

Ridiculously stupid article. But then, I always that reporters knew absolutely nothing about anything.


38 posted on 01/11/2009 2:45:29 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: Steelfish

T A N S T A A F L !!!


39 posted on 01/11/2009 2:46:15 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: driftdiver
I don't expect any generator to keep an aircraft in the air. However, Wild Weasel electronic systems are powered by these generators.
40 posted on 01/11/2009 2:49:56 PM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven and proud to be a Coast Guard Auxiliarist)
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