[TurboZamboni]

I would think a rich guy like Algore would give him millions to spread his prototype's wild success.

[mountainlion]

This is of course impossible as stated. You are basically using battery power to run a low efficiency fan to recharge the battery. The comments were quite interesting. The only way this can work to go very far is in a very strong head wind but you could not go back.

[Lx]

I've seen this before:

[Iron Munro]

You cannot get energy for free.

Every fluidics or aerodynamics engineer knows that spinning a fan blade or prop blade consumes energy.
Even if it is free wheeling it creates drag which means it takes more power to move the vehicle forward.

A fan blade connected to a generator as in this case will consume more power than it generates.

It might provide a small benefit if you only use the vehicle in an area where all of the roads are downhill.

[Road Glide]

Already tried on a motorcycle:
http://www.vladtv.com/blog/58251/fart-powered-motorcycle/

(Warning! graphic pic!)

[Chickensoup]

This is just the kind of thing that was prevalent in my great grandfather's generation. A lot didnt work well but some things became more and more refined and become products.

We live in an over regulated and bureaucratized system that cannot manage undirected inovation.

[Chickensoup]

This is just the kind of thing that was prevelent in my great grandfather’s generation. A lot didnt work well but some things became more and more refined and become products.

We live in an overregulated and beurcratized system that cannot manage undirected inovation.