Should Congress make people with electric cars put a wind mill on top to supply their own electricity?
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at
5:05 pm
Say if someone is driving it would charge the car and they wouldn’t have to use power company electricity and say if they go on a long trip from Alabama to Chicago then they could sell the extra electricity to Illinois Power. This way cut down on using fossil fuels and make money on the side.
This might create extra jobs for the auto people to put the tiny wind mills on the cars. You couldn’t put a giant one on as car might fly off the road.
There you go Pat so it would have to be a tiny one or a bunch of tiny ones.
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lol
Yeah.
That would be great in fast food drive-throughs, tunnels, and under high-voltage electric lines.
Well I am not sure if they should but considering that the idea will not work (1) some might say that it is likely.
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With our tech people in today’s world, Yes we should be able to generate the elect. while driving and have it go right back into the car with out having to be charged by an electric company at all.
You may be onto something, there! Sail-boats do this all the time… as well as powered boats. Check out an online Marine Supply jobber and search either "wind turbine" or "wind generator".
The answer above – saying the the more electricity generated, the greater the load on the car’s motor – is correct only in the complete absence of cross-winds. Here in Texas, trucks get blown smack off the road. Heck! I once had a little Isuzu Diesel that a strong cross-wind would nearly tilt up on 2 wheels. Ever drive I-635 between DFW airport and I-35 on a windy day? Better wear bubble-wrap and install Lexan windows, just in case.
Great Question!!!
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that could be the perpetual motion machine.
Great idea, then you can pay income tax on the extra you sell to the power companies. Great capitalist thinking.
If TACO BELL passed out windmills with every burrito, then you might be on to something! If a windmill could be placed in front of every Congressman at a subcommittee hearing, in the place of microphones, then you would get tremendous KILOWATT-per-soundbite energy production, and you wouldn’t actually have to hear what those people were saying.
Tell me that’s not a good idea!
Just goin’ green