A Thing About Motion

@porwest (102411)
United States
February 22, 2023 11:00am CST
We all know what an alternator in a car does—or most of us do. It recharges the battery, because the battery is drained considerably when we start our car. The alternator uses motion from the engine running to recharge the battery. A self-generating light on a bicycle uses motion to power the light. The power needed to power the light comes from the wheel when it moves. A windmill creates energy through the motion of the rotating blades. In areas where there are lakes or rivers, dams can become a source of power generation. The water passes over mechanical turbine fans, creating power from the motion created when the force of the water makes the fans spin. A hybrid electric car that uses both gas and electric charges itself using a form of regenerative braking which, although a bit more complicated than that, uses the motion of the vehicle as a power source that can be used or stored when needed. So, with all of this knowledge about how we can generate power from things that move—tell me again why we need to plug an electric car in? It's not about climate change. It's not about saving the environment, because I have explained multiple times about the impact of mining and all the fossil fuels used in the mining, production of batteries, transport and even the electricity itself. It's about politics. And it is about money. Someone wants to get paid for the power. Someone wants to get paid for building the infrastructure. Someone wants to get paid for supplying the "service." I don't think it is any secret or even any new technology to consider that motion could be the cleanest way to accomplish the electrification of cars and trucks. But nobody mentions it. Nobody considers it. Nobody asks about it. Why? Because again, it does not serve a purpose for pushing political agendas, creating huge subsidies for powerful friends in the industry, and everyone making a ton of money while scamming the American public and raping the taxpayers. Meanwhile, the same people pushing electrification also oppose adding power plants to supply the enormous amount of additional power needed to do it. Unless we use motion.
2 people like this
2 responses
@TheHorse (228277)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Jun
Send this one to Donald Trump. I doubt he understands the physics. But dams, windmills, little generators attached to bicycle tires...they're all ways of generating electrical energy.from motion.
1 person likes this
@porwest (102411)
• United States
30 Jun
Trump doesn't need to understand physics. He just needs someone in his camp who does. Just like all leaders, they are not experts at everything. They surround themselves with experts.
@TheHorse (228277)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 Feb 23
Heh. I should send you my short story that involves motion and the generation of power. Why can't electric cars have alternators?
1 person likes this
@porwest (102411)
• United States
29 Jun
That would be an interesting read, I think, actually.