Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "NEW suspension battery regen system is genius,,," video.

Doesn't need to be made out of any particular material, that's silly. But correct otherwise. Start with: "how much energy is available?" Do the shocks on your car get hot? Shocks absorb essentially all that energy dissipated in any suspension. Off road racing vehicles may need small radiators from extreme stroke, frequency and velocity of suspension action, but you've never heard of anyone burning themselves on the wimpiest shock absorber from the worst abuse on normal cars, at most they may get slightly warm. That's a crude measure of energy available, very little reward possible under normal driving, so the system would need to be nearly as inexpensive as regular shocks. Wouldn't look anything like this demo and wouldn't harvest much energy. Cool idea tho.
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@chrismuller2780 You entirely missed the point. Energy comes in many forms but the most common default is heat, that's where suspension systems today dissipate the energy to dampen rebound. THEREFORE; heat generated, in the case of current cars it's in the 'shock absorbers', IS A MEASURE OF ENERGY AVAILABLE. Understand? Obviously you want to avoid turning it into heat you can't use, some will always end up as heat but in this case you want to--say intermittently light an LED strip, lol....and that's about all it could do, realistically.
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@sesmeltz1965 Exactly, thanks for clarification and brake comparison. Regen braking captures on the order of 30 to 35% (old numbers could be off) of a very significant amount available.
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