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Originally Posted by Dean
And turbochargers don't produce more power from smaller displacement engines when needed while permitting lower fuel consumption when cruising vs. large displacement engines.
And regenerative braking justs wastes all that tire warming heat by recharging hybrid batteries.
[Clearly this is a Dean and Scott bash heads kind of day.] |
What does this have to do with the law of conservation of energy?
A turbo doesn't make energy out of nothing, it allows you to cram more air into a small motor so it has an effectively larger displacement. You still need to dump the appropriate amount of fuel in there which is where the energy comes from. And a turbo motor off boost is usually much less efficient than a N/A motor of the same size because the N/A motor has a much higher base compression. What do you think is more efficient a 2.0L 8.5:1 motor, or a 2.0L 10:1 motor?
And regenerative braking recovers energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat. It's not creating energy out of thin air (or water as it may be) either.
You want to talk about vastly improving combustion motor efficiency? Scrap all this water-as-fuel nonsense and start building 6-stroke Crower cycle motors that turn waste heat into kinetic energy.