Exhaust Gas Drive
Almost universally automotive alternators are powered by a pulley driven by a belt or chain from the crankshaft. This results in inevitable power loss. In automotive use driving the alternator results in approximately 10% fuel efficiency drop. Recently a company called ThinGap Automotive has produced an alternator powered by exhaust gases - not through a turbine.
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Famous quotes containing the words exhaust, gas and/or drive:
“Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent—unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it—we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
“We do not want them to have less.
But it is only natural that we should think we have not enough.
We drive on, we drive on.
When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)