Re: Mobile S-Rotor!

On 7 Dec 2005 14:00:47 -0800, "TomGee" <lvlus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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>You are forgetting about the energy in the wind. The faster the wind
>speed, the smaller the device required to produce a given amount of
>power. Also, when you double the wind speed, you increase its energy
>eightfold! When you downsize the device, you are free to decrease its
>aerodynamic drag while still producing at 60 mph what a 4-story high
>monstous S-rotor can produce at ordinary daily wind speeds. It must
>consume energy, of course, but the amount will be less than that
>consumed by the engine to rotate its own alternator.

Tom, it may help you to understand what daestrom, Kevin and
others are trying to tell you if you use the term
"slipstream" instead of "wind" when you refer to the air
movement relative to the vehicle.

"Wind", in the weather sense, does have extractable energy.

The slipstream, however, has only the energy imparted to the
vehicle from the engine, since it is actually the vehicle,
not the air, that's moving relative to the earth. Any
energy coming from the slipstream must be from the engine.

You seem to me to be a bright, sincere guy, persistent as
all get out, but you need to back up and get your physics
straight.

It's also usually a good idea to simplify problems as much
as possible. Your involving the vehicle alternator in the
system seems to me to be a red herring. If you could get
free power out of the slipstream, it wouldn't matter what
you used it for. The alternator is just a distraction from
the central issue of the true energy source.


Regards,

Bill Ward


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