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Old 05-03-2014, 12:16 PM   #4
sunchaser
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I have a flashlight that has a magnet in it and by shaking it back and forth it charges a small capacitor/battery that keeps the 3 LED bulbs burning for about 30 minutes. Same idea and not new. A "magnet "does not have to rotate to generate electricity. I have worked with 18 RPM 28MW motors, but I digress from autos. For autos, anything to reduce size and weight is the name of the game.

The market is huge if size and weight can be reduced from current engines - lookout Tesla and their "technology!" The ability to cost effectively - partially only - charge a battery pack like Tesla uses to provide say 350 miles in the desert with AC on is the goal.

Boat market - unless cost, size and performance effective hard to see it going anywhere soon as the all important conversion factor improvement (if any) from gas/diesel to electricity is yet to be demonstrated.
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