definitely hit the mark here. you’ve got a bit more knowledge on the subject that i do. some crazy high tech stuff that goes into these, and even now on the gas turbines where the buckets have hollows and micro holes where they pump cooling gas through them to keep the leading and trailing edges from vaporizing at the insane temps they run. I was at GE years ago during a convention with my father and got to see the machining of some of the buckets. nutty stuff, and that was 15 years ago!
all agreed, especially on that last statement you made would be very similar to a VNT turbocharger, and could overcome a majority of the turbines major faults in this application. If they coupled this with some new tech to keep rotating mass down having a “throttled” micro turbine would be very possible.
I’d LOVE to see this happen. Just the ability ot say i have a turbine powered car in the stable is good enough for me to buy it :number1