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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's not actually true, Steve. See here for a useful table of the specific gravity of all sorts of liquids... |
Of course... where was my mind?
I was obviously thinking of other petroleum-based compounds...
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
They tried this in Formula 1 Racing last year. The KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) would recover energy produced under braking, store it and use it to provide a boost of acceleration when needed. |
I was actually thinking of the heat itself, not just the mechanical energy transference used by hybrids, etc. Tires generate a lot of heat strictly by virtue of their rolling along the ground at high speeds. In a more efficient world, even this excess energy might be worth capturing...