Originally Posted by micho
you want something that'll blow your mind. look up a phillipino inventor named daniel dingel on you tube. Oh and by the way electric cars were the first cars before diesel and gas...look it up. They were also getting more distance to the charge than most EV's today. Funny eh!!
oil isnt about money....its all about power. So much is going on that we cant even begin to understand....one world govt is comming sooner than we probly think.
Electric cars weren't snuffed out by oil, they simply lost the race to a more competitive power source. The circumstances have now changed. That doesn't make an inefficient method of turbocharging and engine any better an idea.
Oil is about power? OK but the power comes from the money you send to the Oil companies just as power comes from the money you send to Washington. With your money goes your right, your freedom, to do with it want you wanted.
Getting back to the subject, Ftroop has pointed out concerns that a more efficient engine design has been somehow ignored or hidden away. One can assume the concept of efficiency is the root of his argument.
That said, why are we arguing about a method of turbocharging an engine that is clearly
not efficient. Even if it were to add HP, it would have to do so at the expense of energy. In a gasoline engine, that fuel is the energy and you would consume more of it , due to energy transitions, to achieve the same HP. Inheriently inefficient.
Why do it.
While it may seem easier to install, from the standpoint of energy management, it is more complicated. If the concept worked, AC systems would be electric because manufacturing costs would be reduced on the assembly line. Getting the compressor off the front of the engine would save millions of dollars. None of the big automakers have done it.
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