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To: Rick.Donaldson
Like the engine, the alternator has the capacity to produce more power than normally required.

And like the engine, if more power output is required, more power energy input is simultaneously required.

If you add electrical load to the alternator, you have to increase power input to the alternator. If the RPM’s are kept constant, the additional power required to match the increased force by the increased electromagnetic fields is supplied by additional torque. This requires additional fuel from the engine. All this additional load has the same inefficiencies of the engine, friction and the alternator so even more fuel energy is consumed than the electrical energy produced.

115 posted on 08/01/2008 10:43:46 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
All this additional load has the same inefficiencies of the engine, friction and the alternator so even more fuel energy is consumed than the electrical energy produced.

Your assuming that the injection of hydrogen into combustion chamber has no effect on the engines efficiency.

121 posted on 08/01/2008 11:15:00 AM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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