01-01-2013, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z
Interesting. You post a (overly) technical correction, yet you use inaccurate hyperbole as part of your correction. All that does is make you look confused.
Regeneration is a part of recovery whether you like it or not. One recovers the energy normally wasted during braking, stores that energy, then regenerates power with the stored energy. In a non-technical discussion, such as this thread, they are close enough for the girls I go out with. Just as with calling all refrigerators Frigidaires or facial tissues Kleenex, it may not be exactly correct, but "everybody" knows what you mean. Do you refer to an exhaust driven compressor as a turbocharger (which most ppl understand) or the more accurate turbosupercharger (which will cause most ppl to go "Huh?")?
Why do you insist on using imprecise language when attempting to correct someone? As you point out yourself, one is not (re)creating anything.
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Exactly and regeneration is (from dictionary.com) " to re-create , reconstitute, or make over, especially in a better form or condition." When KERS is used the energy is recovered during braking and used to produce more power. It does not regenerated energy. It never re-creates the energy. It takes one form and changes it, and puts it to use somewhere else. If you could regenerate energy then you breaking Einstein's law of conservation of energy. That is why it is a huge problem (when describing something as complex as KERS) if that specific word is used instead of recover.
BTW since you attempted to go all, I'm smart I know Hyperbole. Hyperbole is always inaccurate. It is a speech tool used to show a strong feel towards something it is not meant to be taken literally. Saying inaccurate hyperbole is like using a double negative. It makes you sound like a moron. I wasn't trying to create an argument here. I was trying to alert the OP that he should take everything he hears from the people posting with a grain of salt.
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