{"id":78,"date":"2009-04-29T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craig.snoeyink.org\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-04-29T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:40:15","slug":"is-adding-a-wind-turbine-to-a-car-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Is adding a wind turbine to a car a good thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research has been going poorly so I took some time today to respond to a reddit thread on adding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reddit.com\/comments\/8gggw\/sorry_for_the_dumb_question_but_i_always_wondered\/\">wind turbines to cars to generate electricity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My response was no, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reddit.com\/comments\/8gggw\/sorry_for_the_dumb_question_but_i_always_wondered\/c0975qs\">it is not a good idea.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then someone asked, what if there is a head wind?\u00c2\u00a0 Great question actually, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reddit.com\/comments\/8gggw\/sorry_for_the_dumb_question_but_i_always_wondered\/c097fwb\">response is here<\/a>. Basically, so long as Vair &gt; 0.224 Vcar, you come out ahead. Otherwise it will cost you energy to have the wind turbine there.<\/p>\n<p>I am posting some pdf&#8217;s with the work I did to figure this out. It is really rough, but some one might find it interesting. I used <em>Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences <\/em>by Cengel and Turner as a reference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craig.snoeyink.org\/dump\/0626_001.pdf\">Page 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craig.snoeyink.org\/dump\/0626_003.pdf\">Page 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craig.snoeyink.org\/dump\/0626_005.pdf\">Page 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craig.snoeyink.org\/dump\/0626_007.pdf\">Page 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?\u00c2\u00a0 Great question actually, my response is here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}