Idea - Energy recovery - Charging on board

[SJFE]

Yep, just for you I do have a real nice bridge for sale......

Just wait on the fuel cell tech to develope a bit more. Then we can enjoy hours of run time... for the low cost of just a couple limbs. Then again that was the attitude toward lipo back in the day. It all gets some what affordable.

[Meniscus]

True, we have a local guy that's working on fuel cell cars and will be applying to boats soon. We'll have to see how that works out. I just can't figure out what he's going to do with the heat!

[DISAR]

Regardelss of what anyone thinks, immutable physical laws deny the possibility of true perpetual motion.
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I 've met a guy recently who wanted advise on building a "machinery" or something like that, which takes advantage of the Archimede's law of buoyancy, and it can rotate in water forever by itself hence producing electrical energy in the end.
I tried to help but the idea is really crazy.

[Blackjack-sven]

If you think about perpetual motion and what it means, free energy for life will never happen as an object needs to produce energy without any friction at all and transfer this energy to something that is not attached to it, for if it is attached to it it will produce friction causing the free moving object to slow down over time even if it is .0000000000001 of a trillionth of decade. The theory of producing power while driving anything is only a way to increase drive time without adding too much more weight to the vehicle. And until then I think some liquid naquata coupled to a fusion chamber will have to do.

[785boats]

Hi Meniscus.
Sorry I missed your other post.
Being an electrician, Tesla is a bit of a hero of mine. He discovered most of the principals of electrical & electromagnetic energy that we use today. He invented transformers, coils, 3 phase A/C generators & motors, A/C power transmission & more. He died with over 2000 patents to his name. Edison stole his ideas. Marconi used 5 of his patents to transmit the first radio message. Tesla had already done that & was working on wireless electricity generation & transmission.
It's a sad story what the scientific community did to the most brilliant mind of the age.
Here's something by Tom Bearden that may be of interest to those that would like to know how electricity really works.

http://www.loveforlife.com.au/node/4585

You'll have to click on to Tom Beardens' main file.
And then click onto "How Electricity Really Works."
Read through the rest of the site too for some fascinating info. It's all to do with Scalar Technology.

Cheers.
Paul.