-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 00:56, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/07 23:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:39:58PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:35:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>>>> Hybrids are not supposed to get great mileage on the highway. Their >>>>>> forte is stop-and-go city/suburb driving. >>>>>> > [snip] > >>>> plug-in hybrid is what I see as the best option for US driving >>>> habits. efficiency short range, but long range capacity. >>>> > > Yes, w/o plug-in, hybrids are useless except in buses, taxi-cabs, > trash trucks. > > Does anyone know why the engine that charges the batteries couldn't > be a turbine instead of ICE? Since it doesn't need to be variable > speed like a directly-powered vehicle, it could be tuned to it's > most energy-efficient RPM, and either be on-or-off. > > And after the hot moving gases spin the generator, there's still > lots of energy left in the gases, so they could be used again, to > spin another generator, or maybe a supercharger. Or both. > > You mean like this? > > http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
Ummm, sorta. But no. :P Seriously, it would be more like the turbines describe on these pages: http://www.gasturbine.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/newpage.htm http://www.gasturbine.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/page2.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5ocYS9HxQb37XmcRAptNAKDjINSRA15R88k/gHaldxh9VusUUgCg6NJc NCdIWDvimEgH5udAe4AEtRo= =KkPz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
