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    LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger

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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    If they get away with that, then I'm just entering one of these in the next LeMons race... #supercharger
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    Image of alexander_the_car_salamander alexander_the_car_salamander
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    They better hope that no birds fly onto the track... #supercharger
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09

    @alexander_the_car_salamander: #supercharger
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: #supercharger
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: Yeah, but then birds & sports of any kind generally do not mix well. #supercharger
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    Image of Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    Yay, weekday Muri--what?

    Now I feel dirty. #supercharger
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    Image of carve carve
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    You know what they should do...they should put the turbine in a little duct, and then route their exhaust pipe up there to blow across it so it's dependent on engine speed instead of car speed. hey....wait.... #supercharger
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09

    @carve: I see what you did there. #supercharger
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    I'd say it could use some more, and more substantial, anchorings - especially back up to the rear of the roof from that center post. That electric motor is a substantial lump waving around up there.

    And there's no way in hell that thing would make more power than it absorbs. But it is the most super excellent way to bring green tech to car racing. Maybe if it was a lot bigger? #supercharger
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    Some team at LeMons South had a wind turbine on the back of their car, it actually spun on the test laps but they made them secure it to not spin during the race. Something tells me, this contraption will befall the same fate.

    Also, the parasitic drag losses will surely cancel out the 1 psi of boost it manages to wheeze out at 65 mph.

    But who cares, it does look menacing, and slightly phallic. #supercharger
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    This is much more efficient than the electric turbo they had previously used, and 10 times as dangerous. I approve! #supercharger
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    I'd be a lot less concerned if it was bolted to the actual frame of the car. #supercharger
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    It's perfectly safe. There's at least one machine screw for each blade and the entire assembly is braced to the plastic spoiler with a tube made of what appears to be copper, which has the highest elastic modulus known. #supercharger
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    Image of jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    So this is how you ghetto charge when you have a ton of free time. I love it. #supercharger
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    It certainly looks dangerous and it ought to be banned, so I think we have a winner... #supercharger
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    Image of englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    Quality, I think I may have come up with something similar whilst daydreaming at college one day...

    Another one was a baffled fuel tank with moving baffles. Each baffle is connected to some sort of energy conversion device so that when the fuel moves around inside the tank it in turn moves the baffles and converts the kinetic energy of the fuel into electricity...

    Caffeine and boring lectures are an odd mix!
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    Image of KTown_WhiteBoy KTown_WhiteBoy
    10/30/09

    @englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat: Piezoelectric materials in the seats and suspension of a car would be a pretty awesome KERS, or imagine the coil and magnet like those shake-to-charge flashlights built into a strut. #supercharger
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    10/30/09

    @KTown_WhiteBoy: Those shake to charge shocks exist, can't recall the who did it, but someone came up with them (BMW maybe?) #supercharger
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    Image of englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat
    10/30/09

    @KTown_WhiteBoy: Sounds like Jalopnik is heading towards having this perpetual motion schebang sewn up! #supercharger
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    Image of KTown_WhiteBoy KTown_WhiteBoy
    10/30/09

    @englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat: Being a Comp.E., I can safely claim all ignorance of thermodynamics. Perpetual motion, here we come! #supercharger
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    Image of 1300ccsoffury 1300ccsoffury
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    I have similar aspirations to recreate the Brabham fan car for LeMons. #supercharger
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    Give us Jalops some time, and we'll have perpetual motion solved. #supercharger
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    In reply to LeMons Team Crafts Wind-Powered Supercharger
    What they're not telling us is that this qualified for an NEA endowment, which more than paid for their LeMons efforts. #supercharger
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