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Someone has been spending too much time on ChatGPT.

mechanical engineering student

Did not pay much attention in high school

This guy apparently doesn’t understand the first and second laws of thermodynamics. However, in his defense, this is sorta how regenerative braking works, but with less complexity.

When the battery runs out, you pull over and "pedal" to recharge the battery, then you're good to go again!

Wow, excessive emojis and em-dashes... Not ai at all

A mechanical engineering student that doesn't know the law of energy conservation?

I had this exact idea... when I was 7. That was before I was introduced to newtonian physics.

Why not cut out the middle man and directly charge battery 2 with battery 1? Switch and repeat.

Nice to get a moment to pull out a classic

This is satire… right? I hope it is

Yes, many electric bicycles power themselves while going down hills or costing. As for the other idea that you could recharge them just by pedaling ... That exists already. Almost nobody wants it because it's easier to plug your bicycle in. The point of the electric bicycle is to do less work, not to do more. Otherwise you would get a regular bicycle because it weighs less.

Techbros rediscovering old principles, a tale as old as....well, since the tech industry.

Either he's lying about being a mechanical engineer or the barrier to entry to become a mechanical engineer is embarrassingly low.

It this guy seriously proposing a perpetual motion machine for the purposes of EV charging? Also not that it really matters but who the hell has range anxiety on an electric bicycle. You get 30 miles out of those things easily, what sort of bike rides is he doing where you have to recharge that more than once a month?

He should try recharging a solar panel with a light powered by the solar panel. Just achieving infinite power.

Perpetual motion machine aside, where tf is bro going that the range of an ebike isn't enough, but the speed is

Mechanical engineering student huh? Good to know he didn't attend class on day 1 of dynamics

This has to be a parody account right?

Looks like it could even be AI style with all the emojis.

Either way, thanks I hate it.

With this many emojis and em dashes, he's probably engagement farming using llm content, regardless of the thermodynamics gaps in logic

Bro forgot to pay attention to thermodynamics.

This is dumb as shit ofc, but it gave me an idea that's probably nearly equally dumb as shit:

Regular bicycle, but with an extra gear that can selectively connect to the chain or wheel or w/e, that's connected to a coil torsion spring on a kind of ratchet release.

Basically you flip the switch when it's a good time to rob some energy like when you're on level ground or going down hill. That energy makes you a tad less efficient (but you don't care cuz it's level or downhill), and uses that energy to wind up the coil torsion spring up until a max amount of torque is stored.

Fast forward a bit: now you're approaching an incline, so you flip the switch the other direction and that torsion spring regurgitates that energy back into forward motion, giving you a nice forward burst when going up a hill.

Not free energy by any stretch, but a strategic use of what you're already spending.

Feel free to explain why this is a horrible idea - I'm about as far from a physicist as it gets.

Newton? Never heard of him.

This guy is only telling us part of the truth. You actually need three batteries. The third battery is hooked up to a solar and wind generator. Only then can you achieve true energy independence.

Does he have a fundme or patreon page? I think it's worth supporting his research if it can be applied to cars and trains one day.

If somebody is an airplane engineer, is it possible to do something like that with planes? It would be great if planes could become environmentally friendly with such technologies.

It's almost as if one object perpetually moves something that creates a form of motion perpetually to continuously move that first item. Like a continuous motion machine or perpetual movement apparatus. Something like that. I feel like my naming is close, though.