I saw this come across FB today and read the comments. For a while. They made me very sad at the state of scientific literacy in the country (world?) today – more than half of them thought it was a great idea and would actually work.
I thought this was so obvious that my first guess on seeing the picture was to wonder if he’d put some gasoline engine in the truck to spin the tire.
I still don’t think the owner is trying to charge the batteries, I doubt they can be charged that way. Maybe charge other batteries? Do EVs still have 12v lead batteries he might be charging? Is it an odometer/speedometer replacement? Is it just to make fun of EVs and see how many gullible headlines he could generate?
I had that brilliant thought when I was about 12 of connecting a motor to a generator and generator to motor and was moderately put off when Dad dismissed it out of hand. Turned out he was smarter than I thought, but it would have been nice if he had a similar story to share.
Shortly after graduating college in ’77 with a physics degree my postman hit me with an ingenious idea:
Instead of sending electricity into the ground, why not reuse it? Why just throw it away?
My newfound degree didn’t even know where to start. I could only shake my head and walk away.
But he was ready for me the next day. Cars powered by air! when going downhill, they pumped air into a tank – something like they do with SCUBA tanks. When going uphill or on level ground, that compressed air would drive a turbine. You could drive for hundreds of miles! As a SCUBA diver at the time, all I could think of was the way they submersed SCUBA tanks in water while filling them to keep them relatively cool. That was for one charge cycle. Imagine doing that over and over as you drive up and down hills.
The man was truly a genius.
Trying to Play Nice
August 30, 2024 6:24 am
Not only doesn’t this person understand physics and thermodynamics, they aren’t very good with English literature either.
Please! When chiding someone for improper English usage, please use the language correctly. “They” is a plural pronoun, so it cannot be used in referencing “this person.”
Hmm. The singular “they” has a very long history in English, and is endorsed (with supporting evidence) by Stephen Pinker in The Sense of Style. I will take a lot of convincing that he is wrong.
“They” can be used where the singular pronoun is not expressed or known as definitely masculin or feminine. It cannot be used in place of the singular masculine or feminine pronoun.
I would love to hear them state they do not have to plug it in anymore.
The laws of thermodynamics be damned!
Rod Evans
August 30, 2024 6:46 am
You just have to smile. At least he didn’t put a wind turbine on the roof as well, maybe he didn’t need that extra generating power or was just concerned about low overhanging trees might be an issue……
Actually, it is possible that sailboats can in fact sail faster than the wind speed. The motive power for a sailboat comes from two sources – one is the direct push by the wind on the sailboat, including its sails and masts, but the other is actually “lift”, just like the same lift that aircraft use to fly. The direct push of wind when sailing downwind is limited by the windspeed. But the lift is created by the shape of the sail, much like an aircraft wing airfoil.
Whether any given sailboat can sail faster than the windspeed depends upon many variables, such as the size and shape of the sails, the configuration of the foresails that are used to affect wind flow over downwind sails; the wetted length of the hull; the displacement of the hull; the heel angle of the boat; weight distribution within the boat; and of course, how effectively the crew does in controlling the sails and the rudder to take best advantage of the wind.
It is for all the reasons above that most sailing vessels sail fastest not directly downwind, where they are limited by the wind speed but when sailed on a “reach” where the wind is actually coming from the side, not from behind.
I thought it had something to do with ‘resolving’ the vector forces of the wind on the sail. In other words, one can zip along faster than the wind on a ‘reach’, but actual progress of the vessel in the direction of the wind is limited to the speed of the wind.
Actually, you’re right, the resultant wind vectors control motive power, but in sailing, as in aircraft, what matters is the “relative wind” direction and the forces that creates … that is, the direction of the wind relative to the chord of the airfoil (sail in boats, wing in aircraft). In a reaching sail craft, the wind is coming from the sides (at various angles called “broad reach” – from the side and behind – to “beam reach” – directly abeam – and “close reach” – where the wind is ahead and to the side).
The broad reach tends to be the fastest point of sail for most sailcraft because the sail creates both lift due to its airfoil, and also gets the benefit of direct wind from behind.
I read an article many years ago about a vehicle with an oval shaped sail structure (more like airfoils) that once it got to around 40 mph, could continue down the road as long as there was some (I forget the details) minimum wind.
I wonder if that can be dug up and looked at again.
it is possible that sailboats can in fact sail faster than the wind speed.
I read that and thought there was no way it was possible – so I looked it up. Sure enough, it’s true. But apparently not when going exactly with the wind. Thanks for sharing that!
Ice boats typically reach speeds of 4 to 5 times the wind speed and often exceed 100 mph in 30 mph winds. The world record is 143 mph set on Lake Winnebago, WI.
A small wind turbine, or two or three, might do some good while the auto was parked. Where I live the wind blows 20 mph (30 ft/sec) much of the time. Flexable solar panels fitted to the car would also be good, because we have lots of sunny days. Return on investment would turn positive in 2054 (+ or – 7 months) and Gaia would be pleased. Oh, trees are few here. 🤣
2054?! LOL no solar panel or widmill will last that long, so you would have to buy more before you’re going to get any “return on investment.”
In other words, the ROI will always be less than zero. As with any honest accounting of wind or solar installations. (Hint: Honest means you can’t count mandates for priority of use, tax credits, rebates, electricity the utility is forced to buy from it, etc.)
Every engineer knows that a windmill on the roof would overload his batteries and catch the car on fire.
If the inventor will only take the next step he will find it’s possible to plug the car into the grid, mount a windmill on the roof, and continuously drive it in circles around the connection point. The car itself will need no power, since he’s rigged it brilliantly with the dynamo. All of the extra energy generated by the windmill will be pumped into the grid, powering his house and, with enough windmills, the whole neighborhood.
A few years ago there was a story here with a picture of some guy in, I think China, putting a fan blade on the front of his EV to recharge the battery.
Ireneusz
August 30, 2024 6:47 am
Large drop in surface temperature in the central equatorial Pacific leading to La Niña conditions.
True, but averages are not really interesting. Here is a recent
update of ENSO, Recent Evolution and Current Conditions PowerPoint Presentation (noaa.gov)
I never thought that any WUWT staff undertook measurement(s) of El Niño or La Niña weather conditions.
Instead I assumed that WUWT personnel, including editors, compiled the ENSO “meter” reading from the best available scientific resources, which IMHO does not necessarily equate to NOAA.
Thank you for the invitation to become involved with such a Herculean task but, as the movie character Harry Callahan once observed, “a man’s got to know his limitations”.
Thank you for providing the details of the script you use to create the WUWT ENSO readout. I am gratified to see that it doesn’t rely on NOAA data and I can totally agree with your reasoning.
I am not familiar with the Python coding, being old enough to have been trained in college using original FORTRAN (imagine that!) computer language . . . but I can also appreciate there’s many more code lines required to convert the retrieved BoM data into the graphical display of the webpage’s ENSO meter. 😊
In closing, seriously, thank you for your contributions to making WUWT the great site that it is!
I read the last line in the file, “20240819,20240825,0.13”, fish out the 0.13, multiply by 10, convert to a two digit integer “+01”, and copy the relevant file:
word = web_last.split(‘,’)
# N.B. ‘%+03.0f’ % -0.3 == ‘-00’ so we need elninometer-00.gif
anomaly = ‘%+03.0f’ % (float(word[2]) * 10)
open(enso_last, ‘w’).write(web_last)
meter_file = ‘elninometer%s.gif’ % anomaly
meter_data = open(meter_file, ‘r’).read()
open(‘elninometer-current.gif’, ‘w’).write(meter_data)
sl:enso$ ls -l elninometer*
-rw-r–r– 3 werme users 6976 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-00.gif
-rw-r–r– 3 werme users 6976 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+00.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6946 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-01.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6908 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+01.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6986 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-02.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6919 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+02.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6913 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-03.gif
…
I don’t remember where the files came from, I’m not the first person to maintain the graphic! 2007 may predate WUWT.
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/ refers to the SOI – Southern Oscillation Index . I believe the SOI is the difference of two pressures and the opposite sign. Currently the 30 day average is 4.27, the 90 day averages is -1.98.
SOI DashboardLatest Southern Oscillation Index valuesSOI values for 30 Aug, 2024
Average SOI for last 30 days 5.37
Average SOI for last 90 days-1.74
Daily contribution to SOI calculation 11.59
The atmosphere interacts with the ocean. SOI is rising rapidly. These are conditions toward La Niña, which will strengthen in September.
SOI values for 31 Aug, 2024
Average SOI for last 30 days 6.75
Average SOI for last 90 days -1.30
Daily contribution to SOI calculation 22.03 https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
As my physics prof. once quipped “Why bother ? Just connect a chain drive from the front wheels to the rear wheels, give it a push and either the front wheels drive the rears or vice versa and it runs forever.”
Well, it’s certainly a joke, even if they don’t have a sense of humor. 😄
J Boles
August 30, 2024 7:07 am
What is driving what? Maybe they take turns driving each other? That is a real hybrid, but that is supposed to be done internally. I bet that chain is loud…zzzzZZZZZ!
mleskovarsocalrrcom
August 30, 2024 7:21 am
That would never work. Every time you backed up it would draw more from the battery than it would add by going forward.
Owner:
“Every time I flip the switch to the alternator, my range goes down….. I still haven’t figured it out yet, but with some grant money from the government for further research I will eventually solve it. It is Just a matter to time and Taxpayer Money.”
The type gullible enough to believe this are the same sort who think that hydrogen is an energy source we can use to “replace fossil fuels.”
paul courtney
August 30, 2024 8:15 am
This obviously would not work as shown. They must be hiding the perpetual-motion bird-drinking-from-glass that actually drives the generator. Probably in the glove box.
Yes which bird is powered by a flow of water which is replenished by an electric pump which is powered a mini turbine which is turned by the movement of the bird. 😆
Well, when I was but a wee lad, my father told us children stories of his own childhood where he had to walk 5 miles to and from from school, in 3 feet of snow, uphill-both ways! Maybe the owner of this machine just needs to retrace my father’s school route…
Regards
MCR
I didn’t buy it for that reason- I just like to try different frozen foods. But now I can brag about it to my woke friends. 🙂
The pictures of the meals on their web site don’t indicate that they’re carbon neutral- must be old photos- but the product I bought says it in huge letters.
The one I bought is very tasty- Portabella & Goat Cheese Ravioli.
Hard to tell, I’ve encountered people who believe this would work. There was one around here a couple years ago telling me he could generate more electricity with a battery powered drill than it took to run it.
What so special about that? Don’t tropical storms happen in the Atlantic this time of year? The real question is it not a develop into a hurricane and if not why. Just check it not even on Noaa Tropical weather outlook, even they are not calling it a tropical storm.
Another form of alternator, amazing.
But where is the profit [and pain] in that?
If it really worked…
Anyone sensible would have plonked some solar panels on the roof. They work when the cars stationary as well.
Not that anyone sane would bother. Just by a petrol car and save £10k on the purchase price.
That amount of money saved will purchase a considerable amount of fuel. 🤔😉
I saw this come across FB today and read the comments. For a while. They made me very sad at the state of scientific literacy in the country (world?) today – more than half of them thought it was a great idea and would actually work.
Perpetual motion machines?
I thought this was so obvious that my first guess on seeing the picture was to wonder if he’d put some gasoline engine in the truck to spin the tire.
I still don’t think the owner is trying to charge the batteries, I doubt they can be charged that way. Maybe charge other batteries? Do EVs still have 12v lead batteries he might be charging? Is it an odometer/speedometer replacement? Is it just to make fun of EVs and see how many gullible headlines he could generate?
Well, some people believe in homeopathy. And my favorite snark is selling shares in a voodoo acupuncture venture.
I had that brilliant thought when I was about 12 of connecting a motor to a generator and generator to motor and was moderately put off when Dad dismissed it out of hand. Turned out he was smarter than I thought, but it would have been nice if he had a similar story to share.
Shortly after graduating college in ’77 with a physics degree my postman hit me with an ingenious idea:
Instead of sending electricity into the ground, why not reuse it? Why just throw it away?
My newfound degree didn’t even know where to start. I could only shake my head and walk away.
But he was ready for me the next day. Cars powered by air! when going downhill, they pumped air into a tank – something like they do with SCUBA tanks. When going uphill or on level ground, that compressed air would drive a turbine. You could drive for hundreds of miles! As a SCUBA diver at the time, all I could think of was the way they submersed SCUBA tanks in water while filling them to keep them relatively cool. That was for one charge cycle. Imagine doing that over and over as you drive up and down hills.
The man was truly a genius.
Not only doesn’t this person understand physics and thermodynamics, they aren’t very good with English literature either.
“Elemental!”
Please! When chiding someone for improper English usage, please use the language correctly. “They” is a plural pronoun, so it cannot be used in referencing “this person.”
Hmm. The singular “they” has a very long history in English, and is endorsed (with supporting evidence) by Stephen Pinker in The Sense of Style. I will take a lot of convincing that he is wrong.
Mrs. Pittinger* would have Stephen Pinker’s heart for lunch, I’m afraid.
*AP English, grades 11 and 12, waaaaay back in 1979-1981.
Shakespeare used plural for unknown-gender singular. Mrs Pittinger apparently shouldn’t have been teaching AP English.
As bastardized as it is, “they” as a gender neutral singular pronoun is in common use. And actual use is what matters. Go after “decimate” next.
Augh! Getting me started on decimate can be devastating.
Then there’s confusing watts (power) and watt-hours (energy).
Oh, you just mis-gendered the entire LGBTQIA+ movement. Off with your head! /s
Which one?
from the Cambridge dictionary
“They” can be used where the singular pronoun is not expressed or known as definitely masculin or feminine. It cannot be used in place of the singular masculine or feminine pronoun.
Has this guy also pegged a playing card to a wheel to make it sound like a gattling gun?
Oh, that brings back memories of putting cards on our bike wheels back in the early ’60s. Forgot all about that.
I’ve suggested such an improvement for BEVs so pedestrians can hear them coming.
Have you ever heard the tyre roar from a Tesla?
Sounds like $$$$s being borne away on the ether?
I would love to hear them state they do not have to plug it in anymore.
The laws of thermodynamics be damned!
You just have to smile. At least he didn’t put a wind turbine on the roof as well, maybe he didn’t need that extra generating power or was just concerned about low overhanging trees might be an issue……
Sailing faster than the wind Wikipedia
There’s a nice You Tube of a wind turbine powered vehicle
going straight down wind faster than the wind.
Actually, it is possible that sailboats can in fact sail faster than the wind speed. The motive power for a sailboat comes from two sources – one is the direct push by the wind on the sailboat, including its sails and masts, but the other is actually “lift”, just like the same lift that aircraft use to fly. The direct push of wind when sailing downwind is limited by the windspeed. But the lift is created by the shape of the sail, much like an aircraft wing airfoil.
Whether any given sailboat can sail faster than the windspeed depends upon many variables, such as the size and shape of the sails, the configuration of the foresails that are used to affect wind flow over downwind sails; the wetted length of the hull; the displacement of the hull; the heel angle of the boat; weight distribution within the boat; and of course, how effectively the crew does in controlling the sails and the rudder to take best advantage of the wind.
It is for all the reasons above that most sailing vessels sail fastest not directly downwind, where they are limited by the wind speed but when sailed on a “reach” where the wind is actually coming from the side, not from behind.
there’s a video of a guy who demonstrated this online somewhere
I thought it had something to do with ‘resolving’ the vector forces of the wind on the sail. In other words, one can zip along faster than the wind on a ‘reach’, but actual progress of the vessel in the direction of the wind is limited to the speed of the wind.
Actually, you’re right, the resultant wind vectors control motive power, but in sailing, as in aircraft, what matters is the “relative wind” direction and the forces that creates … that is, the direction of the wind relative to the chord of the airfoil (sail in boats, wing in aircraft). In a reaching sail craft, the wind is coming from the sides (at various angles called “broad reach” – from the side and behind – to “beam reach” – directly abeam – and “close reach” – where the wind is ahead and to the side).
The broad reach tends to be the fastest point of sail for most sailcraft because the sail creates both lift due to its airfoil, and also gets the benefit of direct wind from behind.
I read an article many years ago about a vehicle with an oval shaped sail structure (more like airfoils) that once it got to around 40 mph, could continue down the road as long as there was some (I forget the details) minimum wind.
I wonder if that can be dug up and looked at again.
it is possible that sailboats can in fact sail faster than the wind speed.
I read that and thought there was no way it was possible – so I looked it up. Sure enough, it’s true. But apparently not when going exactly with the wind. Thanks for sharing that!
Ice boats typically reach speeds of 4 to 5 times the wind speed and often exceed 100 mph in 30 mph winds. The world record is 143 mph set on Lake Winnebago, WI.
A small wind turbine, or two or three, might do some good while the auto was parked. Where I live the wind blows 20 mph (30 ft/sec) much of the time. Flexable solar panels fitted to the car would also be good, because we have lots of sunny days. Return on investment would turn positive in 2054 (+ or – 7 months) and Gaia would be pleased. Oh, trees are few here. 🤣
2054?! LOL no solar panel or widmill will last that long, so you would have to buy more before you’re going to get any “return on investment.”
In other words, the ROI will always be less than zero. As with any honest accounting of wind or solar installations. (Hint: Honest means you can’t count mandates for priority of use, tax credits, rebates, electricity the utility is forced to buy from it, etc.)
Every engineer knows that a windmill on the roof would overload his batteries and catch the car on fire.
If the inventor will only take the next step he will find it’s possible to plug the car into the grid, mount a windmill on the roof, and continuously drive it in circles around the connection point. The car itself will need no power, since he’s rigged it brilliantly with the dynamo. All of the extra energy generated by the windmill will be pumped into the grid, powering his house and, with enough windmills, the whole neighborhood.
Maybe we can get squirrels to drive the car.
A few years ago there was a story here with a picture of some guy in, I think China, putting a fan blade on the front of his EV to recharge the battery.
Large drop in surface temperature in the central equatorial Pacific leading to La Niña conditions.
WUWT ENSO meter, seen in bottom half of right-hand column of info/links is very close to 0.0, right in the middle of the neutral indication.
What La Niña?
True, but averages are not really interesting. Here is a recent
update of ENSO, Recent Evolution and Current Conditions
PowerPoint Presentation (noaa.gov)
You’re asking me to choose who has the more accurate information, WUWT or NOAA?
Really???
I don’t think John was asking you choose. WUWT doesn’t measure NINO 3.4. If you would like to adopt that task, let us know.
I never thought that any WUWT staff undertook measurement(s) of El Niño or La Niña weather conditions.
Instead I assumed that WUWT personnel, including editors, compiled the ENSO “meter” reading from the best available scientific resources, which IMHO does not necessarily equate to NOAA.
Thank you for the invitation to become involved with such a Herculean task but, as the movie character Harry Callahan once observed, “a man’s got to know his limitations”.
I maintain the ENSO meter. I currently fetch the data via a script that does:
sl:enso$ zip=IDCK000081.zip
sl:enso$ url=ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/clim_data/$zip
[Then:
wget -O $zip $url || exit 1
unzip $zip $csv || exit 2
python enso_fetch.py -f $csv || exit 3
]
sl:enso$ unzip -l $zip
Archive: IDCK000081.zip
Length Date Time Name
——— ———- —– —-
19512 2024-08-26 05:37 iod.csv
2624023 2024-08-26 05:37 mjo.rmm.74torealtime.csv
19720 2024-08-26 05:37 nino_1.csv
19699 2024-08-26 05:37 nino_2.csv
19727 2024-08-26 05:37 nino_3.4.csv
19719 2024-08-26 05:37 nino_3.csv
19713 2024-08-26 05:37 nino_4.csv
42542 2024-08-26 05:37 sam_index.daily.csv
22157 2024-08-26 05:37 soi.csv
——— ——-
2806812 9 files
sl:enso$ tail nino_3.4.csv
20240617,20240623,0.27
20240624,20240630,0.37
20240701,20240707,0.31
20240708,20240714,0.24
20240715,20240721,0.16
20240722,20240728,0.17
20240729,20240804,0.03
20240805,20240811,0.15
20240812,20240818,0.07
20240819,20240825,0.13
So, close to 0.
I use BoM because the NOAA site I was using wasn’t very reliable. Neither is the BOM’s http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/nino_3.4.txt , but I found the .zip file a while ago.
Hello again, Ric,
Thank you for providing the details of the script you use to create the WUWT ENSO readout. I am gratified to see that it doesn’t rely on NOAA data and I can totally agree with your reasoning.
I am not familiar with the Python coding, being old enough to have been trained in college using original FORTRAN (imagine that!) computer language . . . but I can also appreciate there’s many more code lines required to convert the retrieved BoM data into the graphical display of the webpage’s ENSO meter. 😊
In closing, seriously, thank you for your contributions to making WUWT the great site that it is!
Making the image is is disappointingly simple.
I read the last line in the file, “20240819,20240825,0.13”, fish out the 0.13, multiply by 10, convert to a two digit integer “+01”, and copy the relevant file:
word = web_last.split(‘,’)
# N.B. ‘%+03.0f’ % -0.3 == ‘-00’ so we need elninometer-00.gif
anomaly = ‘%+03.0f’ % (float(word[2]) * 10)
open(enso_last, ‘w’).write(web_last)
meter_file = ‘elninometer%s.gif’ % anomaly
meter_data = open(meter_file, ‘r’).read()
open(‘elninometer-current.gif’, ‘w’).write(meter_data)
sl:enso$ ls -l elninometer*
-rw-r–r– 3 werme users 6976 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-00.gif
-rw-r–r– 3 werme users 6976 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+00.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6946 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-01.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6908 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+01.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6986 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-02.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6919 Jan 5 2007 elninometer+02.gif
-rw-r–r– 1 werme users 6913 Jan 5 2007 elninometer-03.gif
…
I don’t remember where the files came from, I’m not the first person to maintain the graphic! 2007 may predate WUWT.
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/ refers to the SOI – Southern Oscillation Index . I believe the SOI is the difference of two pressures and the opposite sign. Currently the 30 day average is 4.27, the 90 day averages is -1.98.
Your graph seems to come from https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/
What is CDAS? It’s not immediately obvious to me. Please look into it and report back. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml#references might be a starting point but @ToldYouSo will gripe that’s a NOAA page. Perhaps he can look into it too.
SOI DashboardLatest Southern Oscillation Index valuesSOI values for 30 Aug, 2024
Average SOI for last 30 days 5.37
Average SOI for last 90 days-1.74
Daily contribution to SOI calculation 11.59
The atmosphere interacts with the ocean. SOI is rising rapidly. These are conditions toward La Niña, which will strengthen in September.
SOI values for 31 Aug, 2024
Average SOI for last 30 days 6.75
Average SOI for last 90 days -1.30
Daily contribution to SOI calculation 22.03
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
SOI values for 1 Sep, 2024
Average SOI for last 30 days 7.63
Average SOI for last 90 days -0.95
Daily contribution to SOI calculation 21.34
It’s a joke, someone has a sense of humor.
As my physics prof. once quipped “Why bother ? Just connect a chain drive from the front wheels to the rear wheels, give it a push and either the front wheels drive the rears or vice versa and it runs forever.”
Well, it’s certainly a joke, even if they don’t have a sense of humor. 😄
What is driving what? Maybe they take turns driving each other? That is a real hybrid, but that is supposed to be done internally. I bet that chain is loud…zzzzZZZZZ!
That would never work. Every time you backed up it would draw more from the battery than it would add by going forward.
I’m reminded of Bueller trying to run the odometer backwards by running the prized sports car in reverse on jackstands. 😆
If he had that same arrangement on the left rear wheel, he could sell the excess electricity back to the utility company.
Yeah but only if the government forced the utility to take it!
Well . . . really? . . . is that the only problem you see with what I proposed? 😳
Broken jokeometer is also an issue.
Owner:
“Every time I flip the switch to the alternator, my range goes down….. I still haven’t figured it out yet, but with some grant money from the government for further research I will eventually solve it. It is Just a matter to time and Taxpayer Money.”
Troll
Well, if the planet could get heated by “back radiation”, this might seem a perfectly fine idea. It would be based on the same “physical principle”.
The law of conservation of energy says you can’t get out more than you put in. Hence you cannot keep the battery charged by this method.
The type gullible enough to believe this are the same sort who think that hydrogen is an energy source we can use to “replace fossil fuels.”
This obviously would not work as shown. They must be hiding the perpetual-motion bird-drinking-from-glass that actually drives the generator. Probably in the glove box.
Yes which bird is powered by a flow of water which is replenished by an electric pump which is powered a mini turbine which is turned by the movement of the bird. 😆
Well, when I was but a wee lad, my father told us children stories of his own childhood where he had to walk 5 miles to and from from school, in 3 feet of snow, uphill-both ways! Maybe the owner of this machine just needs to retrace my father’s school route…
Regards
MCR
Meanwhile, I just had a carbon neutral TV dinner for lunch.
https://www.evolfoods.com/Sustainability
I didn’t buy it for that reason- I just like to try different frozen foods. But now I can brag about it to my woke friends. 🙂
The pictures of the meals on their web site don’t indicate that they’re carbon neutral- must be old photos- but the product I bought says it in huge letters.
The one I bought is very tasty- Portabella & Goat Cheese Ravioli.
Hard to tell, I’ve encountered people who believe this would work. There was one around here a couple years ago telling me he could generate more electricity with a battery powered drill than it took to run it.
I had people telling me wind turbines have an eroi < 1
Put a windmill on the roof.
That picture was a thing 5 years ago.
Love the way the internet regurgitates stuff.
Dang, did this guy just invent a “Perpetual Motion” vehicle?…..(sark)
Perpetual motion at its best. /s
I remember an old cartoon where a sailboat was powered by a fan.
We knew it was not possible (no electrical connection to start with), but it was funny.
Tropical storm in Bahamas.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=nwatl&product=vis_swir
What so special about that? Don’t tropical storms happen in the Atlantic this time of year? The real question is it not a develop into a hurricane and if not why. Just check it not even on Noaa Tropical weather outlook, even they are not calling it a tropical storm.
In that case, they have a problem.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/webAnims/tpw_nrl_colors/conus/mimictpw_conus_latest.gif
Tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=gom&product=vis_swir
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