New Motor Design from Mauritius
An inventive sort from Mauritius writes:
Please review my idea, detailed in the attached. The electric steam engine combines many old innovations into one new single innovation, just like the first mobile phone in 1967 combined the radio, microprocessor and the battery to give a mobile phone, the Electric steam engine combines the advanced batteries of modern electric cars and the age old knowledge of steam, temperature and pressure management and finally, a new turbine system.
I respond:
That’s creative, but the problem is efficiency. Have you built one? How efficient is it, overall? The act of charging a battery and discharging it, i.e., converting electric energy into kinetic energy via an electric motor, is in the 90s; you’re going to find it very hard to compete with that.
I sure would like to visit your beautiful and quite well-run country. I understand you folks rank 12th out of 183 in terms of economic openness, regulatory efficiency, rule of law, and competitiveness. That’s impressive.