Title text:
"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3244/
Put another pullback motor in but backwards and you’ve got yourself infinite energy
Imagine a spring large enough to last 200,000 miles.
sounds like a great what if post
I can't remember which car but an early hybrid vehicle did charge up a flywheel instead of an electric battery…
i think it was a bus, and it was used in hills to get extra energy while going down and using ot while going up.
I heard about racing car having spinning wheels too, instead of br~~e~~aking before turns, accumulating energy into them, then after the turn, releasing them for huge acceleration
*braking*
If its a race car it does both
Exactly what I'm looking for, I live on a mountain and work in the valley.
For this to work, you've gotta bring more weight down than you do back up.
Thankfully, you can just leave all your hopes and dreams at the workplace to make your car lighter on the way back!
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