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How? A generator is a fuel-powered engine.
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No. There are generators that are coupled to an electric motor. |
So the electric motor uses power from the dead batteries to run the generator to recharge the dead batteries?
Sorry, I don't believe in perpetual motion. |
Sailor Steve, not on subs, but on a US Navy Surface Ship thank can generate a tremendous ammount of electricity with its Electrical plant setup. |
Still confused by what you mean. So, an electrical motor can, in priniciple, turn a generator to produce electrical energy. But the motor has to get it's electrical energy from somewhere else in the first place, so what's producing that?
Every ship I've ever been on generated it's electrical power either by alternators run by power takeoffs of some kind from the main engines, or from a standalone diesel or gas-turbine generator combination (and I've toured warships that would have used steam to spin their genetators, just never sailed on a steam powered ship).