pretty cool concept. would be smart if they placed small water turbines underneath as well to keep trickle charging the batteries.
Its all about increasing the efficiency o the energy that your expelling to regenerate for use later. If your travelling forward, then you have wasted energy if your not capturing that kinetic energy via a wind or water turbine.
Well, turbines aren't 100% efficient, so trying to gain power from charging via an underwater turbine while powering your motors via solar, won't gain you power, but will instead lose it. Your forward motion costs say, 4kw per hour. The hydroturbine setup would then cause power losses when generating power, as every joule that powered it would come from motion caused by the motors moving you forward (which also aren't perfectly efficient), and then the turbine is say 90% efficient, meaning that even at that awesome efficiency rating, you're losing 10% of the power you're using to generate the power in the turbine - and that ignores drag on the hull, and other losses such as the energy expended in moving the inertial mass.
There's no perpetual energy motion machine, and all equipment experiences losses. This is why superconduction is so sexeh, because superconduction is lossless.
In a current while at rest, however, such a rig might well produce significant power.
thermo god damics
is not just a good idea
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My concept doesn't break the laws of dynamics it's just harnessing undocumented energy.
The boat will travel forward under the power of your motor.
If the forward energy that is already present, is used to turn a permanent magnet motor it will create current.
It may not be enough to power the boat and it's in no way a perpetual energy system. But that forward energy exists and it can effectively be captured for battery charging to supplement solar or wind power.
I was gonna say 'perpetual energy'.
good luck with that.
let us know how it works out.
I've actually built and tested one in my workshop.
And it worked.
It was a pump system, I diverted water through a turbine to spin a motor.
The flow rates weren't effected which meant no extra draw on the pump.
The turbine didn't generate enough to cover the pump power but it did recover energy.
We actually did it with 3 turbines in a row but only had 1 motor. But still it was possible to recover energy from a water system.
This was obviously made as a dedicated system, but water is being pumped everywhere, what's not to say you can't capture some of that hydraulic and kinetic energy for use elsewhere.
do it.
take videos
show us how well it works.
Sadly I wasn't the inventor just helping but I'd happily put you in contact with him if you'd like
ah...I see.
no thank you
I appreciate the thought.