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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?"
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To: sageyrain who wrote (45)9/26/2006 2:14:28 PM
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"the drag from such a device would probably offset the generating benefit"

You are 100% correct. Any power derived from a charging device requires that much power input plus a small % more for the efficiencies involved. Otherwise you are talking about perpetual motion. Nothing is free, not an opinion, just physics.
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