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Would this work for a hybrid vehicle?
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on July 03, 2008, 12:26:17 pm ---I remember a number of years back one of my old friends from highschool, who I only met up with once every couple of years, started going off the deep end on bizarre ideas that would never work. One of his ideas was to have a car with two electric engines, one to power the car and one to turn a whole bunch of alternators. He seemed to believe that if he strapped enough alternators onto it, then it would generate enough power to keep both engines running. I knew there was no way it would work, but he thought it was such a brilliant idea that I decided to just back away slowly and say "good luck with that"
A few years later I met up with him again he wanted to build a remote control helecopter that was the size of a normal helicopter. A computer would be used to control it, and it would use cell phones to communicate with the helicopter. He wanted me to just take an afternoon to whip up the software to operate the helicopter and to keep the helicopter stable so it would be easy to control. I told him it was an extremely complicated thing to do beyond what I was capable of and that at the very least I would need to know exactly how to interface with the hardware. It wasn't just something I could whip up real quick. That seemed to upset him quite a bit as he thought I was making excuses and just didn't want to do it. That was the last time I met up him, which was several years ago. I'd like to meet with him again, but I'm a little scared what crazy idea he has now.
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hehe. i went back to my hometown last week. i always visit the family of a friend (more than i visit him now). his father is a bit of an inventor. he even made money from a patent he had for a rear window car louvre- you know, those black things that shade the back window? anyway, he's been stuck in the perpetual motion rut lately. i feel awkward about it because like i said earlier, its obvious in the newtional world that you dont get something for nothing. if there were to be perpetual motion, you arent going to get it with flywheels and chains and counterweights. over about ten years he's gone through every conceivable perpetual motion cliche- utterly convinced this time he's on a winner.
my consolation is that like earlier perpertual motion guys, he may yet stumble on some useful mechanical attritbute. apparently this is how a lot of clockwork motions came about for instance.
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