Sorry but no matter how I couldn't take the subject seriously. The concept in it's entirety sounds like a California Hookah smoothie.
Maybe I have spent too much time with batteries and alternators and a 15 horsepower hydraulic driven variable speed alternator test bench. When I contracted with CalTrans District 9 for six months, I encountered the first International 1310 6-wheel dump truck with electro dynamic braking. 3208 cat engine with a 6-speed allison because employees did not know how to shift. And the transmission eliminated the possibility of having an effective exhaust brake.
So, for a cost of $30,000 CalTrans fitted test trucks with 20 Kw AC generators, and massive fan cooled refrigerator size heating elements. The generators were driven by a cogged Gilmore belt. The first failure happened coming down CA 120 Tioga Pass. Thank god the truck was empty.
"It doesn't work good!" shouted Louis. "Then the thing started stinking and smoking". The nichrome resistor boxes were torched. The orange CalTrans was burned off. The guy who hired me was the district manager Jay Adams. Bluntly "Don't you dare touch anything to do with that system on that truck" he warned. The bigwigs in Sacramento issued bulletins apparently with skull and crossbones on the letterhead.
I drove one of the trucks -- unloaded. Energizing the system on the flat and unloaded it put a modest boost in braking. But brakes are used downhill with six yards in the bed. Even with twenty thousand watts loading the system, it was a total waste of money.
So when I heard environmental con-artists sold people on the idea of wearing out starter motors and cycling starting batteries, I saw red. Like too much of what is happening today, shysters are telling whoppers to get exclusivity when it comes to repairing the gizmos.
Let's drive to Albuquerque and save fifty cents per gallon, mentality.
Let's obey the Hippies and not thin the unholy thickets of live oak.
PG&E rates are going to soar. I was escorted out of the CDF offices in Santa Rosa after I lodged a protest about limbs being one and a half from 37 KV power lines all over Sonoma county. You can have it folks. I'm done with arguing with idiots.
