{"id":4340,"date":"2011-05-02T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2011-05-03T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:42:47","slug":"yeah-im-the-dumbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"yeah, I&#8217;m the dumbass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/cars\/alternative-fuel\/electric\/jaguar-hybrid-micro-turbine-engineering\">this<\/a> since <a href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1249#comments\">2007<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Turbines are efficient. They are most efficient when they run at a constant speed- not varying speeds like driving. You don&#8217;t need varying speed to charge batteries, you just need one RPM, and need it consistently. using the turbines at a consistent speed to charge a battery? To get a highly efficient 500 mile range out of a car that will go from 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds? And was capable of running on almost any fuel?<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t using very efficient turbines, but they could be. They just picked some that are in the 20% efficiency range, but I&#8217;m confident it&#8217;s possible to combine a rankin\/brayton cycle turbine to squeeze more like 50% efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>NOW they&#8217;re talking. I should get one just on principle. Oh, and it&#8217;s a JAG with a body designed, if I remember correctly, by Louis Vuitton. Mr B should get one too, since we&#8217;ve been discussing the possibility of this very vehicle, though I don&#8217;t think he quite imagined an 800 hp firebreathing rocket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about this since 2007. Turbines are efficient. They are most efficient when they run at a constant speed- not varying speeds like driving. You don&#8217;t need varying speed to charge batteries, you just need one RPM, and need it consistently. using the turbines at a consistent speed to charge a battery? To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}