Cheap Horsepower-Ram air

[Trevor Boicey]

Kurt Bilinski wrote:
> Engine energy - belt losses - alternator losses - charging losses - battery
> losses - wire losses - thermo-electric cooler losses = negative net gain.
> 
> Go figure all of these and you will find no matter how great these coolers
> are, more energy is lost powering them then you could ever get by their
> benefit.

  Well, over the long haul, yes. But the battery allows you to
get theoretical benefit when you want it, and pay for it when
you don't care.

  The net effect will cost you gas mileage for the same
covered distance, but you can charge the battery while
cruising, to drain it during a blast of acceleration where
you need a hundred amps.

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