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lets say you have a bike chainring having 100 teeth and running at one 1 hp and it connected to a second chainring but only having 10 teeth. the rpm on the second would be x10 higher so here my problem if u put in 1 hp and 100rpms but u get out 1hp and 1000 rpms isnt that more energy than put in
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It wouldn't have higher power-- that's the point, energy is conserved so you can't bump up the power rate. Work is force over distance, so power is force times speed. If the speed is changed by the flywheel, and the power stays the same (to conserve energy), then it is the force that must vary. Since the "speed" we are talking about is rpm, it's an angular speed, and the force that matters is actually torque (force times radius), as cjl pointed out.
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The result is that you can get more power out, but you have to put more power in to do so. Secondary answer, there's a rate dependent loss in the alternator and that's likely to result in a better result when you put it at the second ring, but it's still going to be harder to turn the system the more energy you pull out.
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Alternators gain efficiency as RPM increases within their design criteria. This is a seperate issue since an alternator could also have been designed to operate at peak efficiency at the lower RPM.
Efficency is always lost in energy transfer. You cannot relate any misuse of the end output energy to the efficiency of the transfer system.
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