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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Two ranchers get together to chat
  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:34:51 -0500


On May 18, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Lynda wrote:

O.K., all you mechanically/electrical engineering type/inclined folks. How
come they can't use the wheels of a vehicle to generate electricity to
replace the electricity used? Kinda make the hubs the equivalent of he-man
sized alternator/generator type thingys? Why is it that they have to drive
and then "fill up"?

That makes me think of the Wankel engine.

Lynda, the wheels have to turn before they can do anything. Only when gliding downhill do the wheels require no outside power to turn.




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