my mate is wondering wheather or not his idea is patented or not and if it is a good idea or not. he built an electric saloon but instead of having to charge it up all the time he fitted a spoiler and where the meander slip streams through he has fitted mini turbines, it works very well but he doesnt know what to do, back

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Best Answer: You need to call the Nobel people and nominate him for a prize; he's invented perpetual motion. He can't nominate himself, that get him disqualified. Seriously, can't be done. Turbines add drag and that darned law of thermodynamics simply insists you can't get more out of a system than you put contained by. Adding drag means requiring that much more power to move the car, which already needed power to move in the first place. Electric cars are resembling those little electric air fresheners: plug it in, plug it in.

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