beagle9
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Why bring up perpetual motion when that isn't what we are talking about here ? We are talking about the engineering of a technology that works to replenish an energy source, otherwise that is being reduced by the source that is depleting the source as it is converted to power in order to move a vehicle. How is it that we were able to forward engineer something, but we can't reverse engineer it to do the opposite that we are discussing here ?Your alternator always will be a drag on your engine. You can make it a little better by installing more efficient components but at the end of the day it takes gasoline to turn the engine to produce the electricity from the alternator.
The only thing that helps with drag is like what you see in some of the hybrid vehicles where they have been able to recover some of the lost breaking energy.
Do you really not understand the concept of the conservation of energy? I am an engineer so I understand it very well but I didn't think there was anybody in the world that didn't understand that there is no such thing a perpetual motion machine.