My research has been going poorly so I took some time today to respond to a reddit thread on adding wind turbines to cars to generate electricity
My response was no, it is not a good idea.
And then someone asked, what if there is a head wind? Great question actually, my response is here. Basically, so long as Vair > 0.224 Vcar, you come out ahead. Otherwise it will cost you energy to have the wind turbine there.
I am posting some pdf’s with the work I did to figure this out. It is really rough, but some one might find it interesting. I used Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences by Cengel and Turner as a reference.
Post a Comment