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KINETIC ENERGY IDEAS
Fast moving vehicles contain kinetic energy. Almost all vehicles utilize this energy for recharging their batteries with the exception of freight railway cars. There are over 300000 freight railway cars in North America alone. This overlooked possible energy source could be utilized by retrofitting or installing in new wagons regenerative braking systems, anytime the train brakes kinetic energy is produced. This intermittent energy could be used to recharge batteries. If most of the world’s one billion automobiles will be converted into electric cars than there will be great need for stored energy. Each wagon would have a compartment underneath the floor, resembling luggage carriers in busses, which would house the batteries, which when fully charged could be exchanged quickly at designated stations.
Sailing ships could also be used to recharge batteries. Near the end of a sailing ship below the water level, 2 hydrodynamic turbines resembling half of an airplane jet motor could be installed. These turbines would be rotated by the flow of the water. Of course wind mills are more efficient sources of energy but they only work when it is windy. Sailing ships would be able to follow the winds on the seas.
Kinetic energy in aircraft could be utilized for example by a drone and glider combination. Using light electric motors these drone/glider aircrafts could ascend to very high altitudes, in a space where there is little air traffic, turn off their motors, and begin circling and gliding as long as it is technically possible and all the time on their wings inside through an opening, the air flow would rotate turbines and generate electricity. A prerequisite for these aircrafts is that they should be built from light materials so they would be able to carry several light weight batteries.
The massive amount of chemical energy concentrated in all the canon balls, rockets and missiles could be converted into useful kinetic energy. For example a rocket, the size and weight of a locomotive could be launched on horizontal rails. After the initial burst, smaller repeated bursts of explosives would maintain the sliding motion of the rocket, and all along its path regenerative braking would produce kinetic energy. At the end of the 1-2 km run, batteries could be exchanged, the rocket refuelled, turned around and re-launched.
In a miracle of total disarmament all that explosive chemical energy could be peacefully re-used, until an inexpensive abundant chemical energy source is found. see also gravity as an energy source
Fast moving vehicles contain kinetic energy. Almost all vehicles utilize this energy for recharging their batteries with the exception of freight railway cars. There are over 300000 freight railway cars in North America alone. This overlooked possible energy source could be utilized by retrofitting or installing in new wagons regenerative braking systems, anytime the train brakes kinetic energy is produced. This intermittent energy could be used to recharge batteries. If most of the world’s one billion automobiles will be converted into electric cars than there will be great need for stored energy. Each wagon would have a compartment underneath the floor, resembling luggage carriers in busses, which would house the batteries, which when fully charged could be exchanged quickly at designated stations.
Sailing ships could also be used to recharge batteries. Near the end of a sailing ship below the water level, 2 hydrodynamic turbines resembling half of an airplane jet motor could be installed. These turbines would be rotated by the flow of the water. Of course wind mills are more efficient sources of energy but they only work when it is windy. Sailing ships would be able to follow the winds on the seas.
Kinetic energy in aircraft could be utilized for example by a drone and glider combination. Using light electric motors these drone/glider aircrafts could ascend to very high altitudes, in a space where there is little air traffic, turn off their motors, and begin circling and gliding as long as it is technically possible and all the time on their wings inside through an opening, the air flow would rotate turbines and generate electricity. A prerequisite for these aircrafts is that they should be built from light materials so they would be able to carry several light weight batteries.
The massive amount of chemical energy concentrated in all the canon balls, rockets and missiles could be converted into useful kinetic energy. For example a rocket, the size and weight of a locomotive could be launched on horizontal rails. After the initial burst, smaller repeated bursts of explosives would maintain the sliding motion of the rocket, and all along its path regenerative braking would produce kinetic energy. At the end of the 1-2 km run, batteries could be exchanged, the rocket refuelled, turned around and re-launched.
In a miracle of total disarmament all that explosive chemical energy could be peacefully re-used, until an inexpensive abundant chemical energy source is found. see also gravity as an energy source