Researchers work to turn car's exhaust into power

Sounds like it might actually be close to fruition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_bi_ge/tailpipe_power_2

Well, turning exhaust gasses into less gas mileage is easy enough...

All I can think of is the hand-drawn picture of the guy routing his exhaust back into his intake manifold.

Epic fail if there ever was one... LOL

Don't they know that for the perfect balance of performance and efficiency, all you have to do is take energy from exhaust and recycle it?

Lets use the exhaust gases to add 100whp (via turbo) or to get 3mpg more. Hmm...

atlantamx3 wrote: All I can think of is the hand-drawn picture of the guy routing his exhaust back into his intake manifold. Epic fail if there ever was one... LOL

back to the entire "harness waste heat for electricity". I guess it would work well in a hybrid, if those produce enough heat from the engine in the first place

My two cars were built almost twenty years ago, and they both turn their exhaust into more power. In fact some cars have been doing this since the '30s and '40s.

J

making power from exhaust bought my house

Wouldn't a turbo/ generator system work better? I'm not much of a scientist, but that really would be using waste energy.

Pretty cool idea anyway. Reminds me of the sterling engine. That's an invention that I'm surprised is not currently applied to anything.

jikelly wrote: That's an invention that I'm surprised is not currently applied to anything.

seen a bunch operating in a secret lab of a company that i wasn't supposed to be at..

complex and inefficent as of yet. propsed for many devices but making little headway.

Did you see my uncle there? He's been missing since his 100 mpg carb was in Popular Mechanics

And now the government is killing off the guys working on the water/hydrogen things, So they have to be very secretive.

My name is Dale Gribble........ I mean Rusty Shacklefurt. Conspiracy Radio 24/7..discuss...

Wally wrote: Did you see my uncle there? He's been missing since his 100 mpg carb was in Popular Mechanics

yeah. give you a hint.

segway.