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Originally Posted by Lee
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only changed in form.
No way a standard battery and alternator could power such a device for very long, not at any substantial power level at least. It would be more efficient to have the motor of the device attached at the output of the transmission, directly adding power, bypassing the losses it would have through the compressor and the engine.
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I have heard that yes, the electrical power amount would be too high.
Somehow driving it off the transmission would be challenging. Would that ultimately be much more efficient than simply off a drive belt, as already seen with the Procharger I-1?
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1970 Lucerne Blue Firebird Trans Am, deluxe blue interior. Original Ram Air III, M-21, 3.73. Being built as a 4" stroke "434" with SR 614 Ram Air IV heads
1972+ Lucerne Blue 4-door hardtop "what if" T-41 Le Mans Sport GT/Grand Am concepts. Equipped with future 3" journal "455 HO"/"what if" prototype "SD 455".
What if GM had continued production of the 1970-72 GM A body somewhere in the southern hemisphere?
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