Originally posted by warmonger:
However remember, nothing is free
Very true. Energy just doesn't come out of thin air. I've talked about the electrical supercharger with some of my collogues back in school and we basically came to the same conclusion, the amount of energy needed to provide a sufficent amount of boost would need to come from somewhere and it would take horsepower to get horsepower. This comes back to your quote 'nothing is free'. The steam power is interesting, but you would have the same lag you would with the turbocharger. Although I think it would be worse. To build that kind of pressure I would think it would take quite a bit of driving. One would have to do some analysis to see what the rate of heat transfer would be and what kind of time would be needed to get where you would have to be. The more I think about it this is looking like the stuff I saw back when I was studying the Carnot and Rankine vapor power cycles.
-Mike
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