My friend has a Toyota Prius, right? It generates electricity when braking. So I told him all you have to do is drive with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake and you'll never run out of gas!
I'm sure that the price of gasoline will plummet on news of this discovery, Dave. :>
And the price of brake pads will skyrocket? 😛
It also generates electricity when coasting. So it might be a little easier to just coast and keep your foot on the brake all the time. And you'll double on the electricity generated.
You could just tie some large mammal to the vehicle and let it pull you along... maybe? Not sure about electricity generated but, you might end up with more gas than initially anticipated.
Remember Gahan Wilson?
The fabulous "dark" humorist whose work graced Playboy for so many years.
The classic gag panel where the attendant at the service station found a decripid soul chained to the pedals under a hood...
The caption read, "For God's sake call a policeman."
Remember Gahan Wilson?
From your title, I expected the one where two guys in lab coats are looking under the hood of a car with an organic-style assemblage of muscles, veins, and organs. One says "I don't think the general public is ready for this, Stevens."
Remember Gahan Wilson?
:good:
I recall about 20-25 years ago we had a local nutcase named "Newman" or something similar that claimed he had invented a perpetual motion machine. It took a surprising amount of time for the local newspapers to admit it was a fraud (says something for journalism degrees ...). Anyway, the guy later was charged with felony child molestation. I heard he's back in Southern Mississippi inventing "other" contraptions. No idea what happened with the criminal charges.
I recall something like that where the inventor could demonstrate net electrical energy gain. He was actually draining the battery, but for a while it looked like he was charging it. Closer analysis showed that his pulse waveforms weren't registering properly due to the limitations of the meters. Better instruments explained it away.
If it gets enough publicity, the price of gasoline just might plummet. Back around 2000 when IBM announced it would use copper instead of aluminum in the internal wiring of its most advanced integrated circuits, it was covered by the major newspapers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In the commodities markets, there was a bit of a dip in aluminum prices and a bit of a rise in copper prices. What nobody explained to the traders was that a year's supply of copper for IBM's chip factories would fit in the back of a station wagon.
If I remember correctly, Garland Robinette of WWLtv gave him a lot of on-air publicity at the time.
Unfortunately, his reporting gave some creedance to the viewing masses.
Everyone didn't know that Garland was usually bombed on the air. FWIW
And it's down hill both ways. 😀
Remember Gahan Wilson?
The poor guy had to have an odd view of the world simply because he had weird parents. The kind of weird that says naming your child Gahan is a good idea.
