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http://www.allcartech.com/news/1066113_mini-steam-turbine-may-make-the-alternator-obsolete
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Notice the vendor name?
http://www.allcartech.com/news/1066113_mini-steam-turbine-may-make-the-alternator-obsolete
http://www.allcartech.com/news/1066113_mini-steam-turbine-may-make-the-alternator-obsolete
Wow that's a real advance - Imagine using that for added charging to hybrid batteries! Far better than putting a wind turbine on your car roof!
The Germans did it first......Again.
Smart people rock.
I don't rock.... Maybe I roll - like a monkey roll -yeah that's me!
angela
I don't rock.... Maybe I roll - like a monkey roll -yeah that's me!
angela
It's a fine idea but there's problems with this. The turbine must be small so the efficiency won't be very good. It needs either a big radiator and/or big expansion tank to re-condense the water. And it'll be hugely more expensive and heavy because you're replacing the alternator and belt with a turbine, generator, exhaust heat exchanger, radiator/tank, plumbing, and possibly a water pump. They conveniently only show the exhaust heat exchanger in the picture.
At least with their peltier junction idea there's no moving parts.
At least with their peltier junction idea there's no moving parts.