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Why People Should Get Spinning Rims On Their Cars - ACT3
Just throwing a random idea out there. We can be more efficient in powering our vehicles. I know many will post blogs about adding efficiency to vehicles, but I'm sure that not too many people have thought of this:
Imagine the spinners on your car powering your car. When a car stops, the rims on a car with spinners will continue spinning, because of the momentum of the rims. Fortunately, that momentum of the rims can be used for energy. Little turbines on each wheel can generate energy from the spinning of the rims, which can be diverted to the engine of the car (let's hope it's an electric car, too).
Using spinning rims on cars for energy, we can reduce the amount of energy expended, seeing as each stop amounts to a small boost in power, thus resulting in less need for refueling or recharging.
Have a nice day :)
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Comment by Jake Robinson on April 15, 2010 at 11:09pm -
I'm sorry to say but this doesn't work. Because energy cannot be created or destroyed, the energy in the rims has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is the engine. By adding rims you're adding extra weight which means the engine has to burn larger amounts of fuel to move the car. The energy you get back from these rims by placing motor on them would not amount to the extra energy the extra fuel used create due to friction and wind removing energy from the system.
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Comment by Kevin Carruthers on April 15, 2010 at 11:34pm -
Cool idea Daniel!
I quoted you in my LEARN3 blog post:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/cool-ideas-for-power
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Comment by Daniel Pisani on April 16, 2010 at 1:16am -
@ Jake, I understand that there are many ways this could go wrong. I'm just saying that if we have rims on our cars, we should have them moving for extra power. I'm not saying that it'll make up for it 100%, probably not even 5%, just to add some efficiency, using energy that would've been otherwise wasted. Thank you for the constructive criticism, Jake.
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Comment by Barbara on April 16, 2010 at 2:01am -
Current hybrid cars yous the energy from breaking to charge the battery. My honda accord has it. So, every time I stop it charges my battery. I wonder if that is a different energy than that of what would be collected on the tire rims.
You could also have neat rims with a reason and not just for fun.
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Comment by Kevin Carruthers on April 16, 2010 at 2:24am
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It's definitely something worth looking into. Maybe Jake is right and it wouldn't do anything, maybe not. Someone will have to figure that out for sure before we throw the idea away completely.
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Comment by sunnydupree on April 24, 2010 at 1:44am -
Jake take a look at my idea for a inductive electricity car. maybe that could be part of it? http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/act-3-using-alternative-f...
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Comment by Roger Briggs on April 26, 2010 at 2:50am -
Keep on using that imagination! You'll run up against a million other people who will tell you an idea can't work. Perhaps it can't, but finding out why could lead to an even better idea!
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