DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoWind/solar motorcycle looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legitnewatlas.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11cross-posted to: energy@slrpnk.nethardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkWind/solar motorcycle looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legitnewatlas.comDudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square6linkfedilinkcross-posted to: energy@slrpnk.nethardware@lemmy.world
minus-squareWild_Mastic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·29 days agoThose “wind turbines” are definitely helping… because energy gets magically created, right?
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-229 days agoAh yes because a wind generator is magic. (It would work if the bike is stationary or in some conditions if the wind direction is right relative to the bike direction.) But probably it loses more in drag than it gains in generation, except when the bike is stopped
minus-squareWild_Mastic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·29 days agoYeah I meant while in motion. Otherwise airplanes with propellers wouldn’t need fuel.
minus-squaregreenhorn@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoThe guy on YouTube Quint Builds has been experimenting with this https://youtu.be/5Mr8FDyGcSA
Those “wind turbines” are definitely helping… because energy gets magically created, right?
Ah yes because a wind generator is magic.
(It would work if the bike is stationary or in some conditions if the wind direction is right relative to the bike direction.)
But probably it loses more in drag than it gains in generation, except when the bike is stopped
Yeah I meant while in motion. Otherwise airplanes with propellers wouldn’t need fuel.
The guy on YouTube Quint Builds has been experimenting with this https://youtu.be/5Mr8FDyGcSA