Would a small windmill generator placed in a truck bed produce enough energy to power the truck (if electric)?

Question

If placed in the truck bed it would take drag out of the question and would have wind conditions ideal for its designs. would it be enough to power the truck?

Answer 1

Depends how much you drive the truck, vs. how much wind it gets while it's sitting parked.   Probably not enough though.

If you're thinking you can get the windmill to run on wind gotten by driving, you need to research "over-unity".

Answer 2

Would never work.

Answer 3

You could get about a half horsepower or so out of a truck-mounted wind turbine.  That might be enough to drive it 1 or 2 mph.  Hardly seems worth the trouble!

Answer 4

noo

Answer 5

Perhaps you can put a sail on the truck.

Answer 6

You have to strategically place the windmill. Let me say, that just outside the doors of Congress, or maybe put it in view of the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port Ma.  Another great place would be right in back of Al Gore jet when just before it takes off.

Answer 7

It would not produce enough energy.  However you could use your idea as long as you had other methods combined with it.

Answer 8

Are you suggesting that the windmill generator would be efficient enough to start a perpetual motion cycle?

Answer 9

Yes - Perpetual Motion is the new power of the future!

Answer 10

No, because, among other reasons, the force of the drag produced by the wind against the windmill will be greater than the amount of energy produced by the generator.  

This would otherwise only work under laws of cartoon physics.