Car powered by compressed air.French Company MDI, Cyril and Gee Negre, Motor DevelopmentInternationalEuros 7K or $15K US per car, called "Airpod"They have a compressor which can be run fromthe released air before venting to recover somemore of the stored energy.It looks very light and the front wheel diameter worries me.Would a beefier version of this work for US Commuters, trucks, etc?What would the drawbacks of such technology be?

"Greegor"** Compressed by what ?** Many and massive.See:" Last year, Schipper co-authored a study showing compressed air's inefficiency: per volume, it contains only 12 percent of the energy in lithium-ion batteries and 1 percent in that of gasoline. Worse: as clean as it sounds environmentally, the air vehicle isn't all that clean-but the emissions come from the power plant instead of the tailpipes. "To coin a phrase - it's all a load of hot air...... Phil

So..compress it at home and put the heat into the hot water tank. Then,when it's decompressed in the car, use the cooling effect as a free airconditioner.There were a few quite innovative designs to increase the thermodynamicsof the things. An few crackpot ideas, too.mike

Car powered by compressed air?

Mar 14, 2011 197 Replies

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krw 15 years ago

...mopping up s*it.

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krw 15 years ago

I was named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

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m II 15 years ago

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T 15 years ago

Or nuclear, natural gas, green tech, etc.

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Sylvia Else 15 years ago

Nuclear is possible. They wouldn't usually run on natural gas because they'd normally be charged on off-peak power at times when gas powered generation is shut down. Green? I suppose three or four may be.

Sylvia.

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Greegor 15 years ago

Archie, you nym shifting putz, did you think your grandiose lies were actually selling? LOL

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krw 15 years ago

He *is* AlwaysWrong.

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Greegor 15 years ago

Archie, you deserve all of the respect that any other nym shifting anonymous a-hole on usenet does!

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Michael A. Terrell 15 years ago

Dimmy / number of nyms leaves nothing to respect.

You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid? on it, because it's Teflon coated.

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Chieftain of the Carpet Crawle 15 years ago

Then you had better hope that I never come looking, little fucktard.

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krw 15 years ago

Oh, more threats from DimBulb.

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Greegor 15 years ago

G > Archie, you deserve all of the respect G > that any other nym shifting G > anonymous a-hole on usenet does!

Archie > Then you had better hope that Archie > I never come looking, little fucktard.

krw > Oh, more threats from DimBulb.

Yeah, I'm just so askeered! Ptptptptpt!

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John - KD5YI 15 years ago

You had better be. Somewhere in a thread far away, ISTR him implying he is a runt. And you know how nym runts are.

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Greegor 15 years ago

Napoleon complex?

On top of his other textbook pathologies?

Sheesh.

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IAmTheSlime 15 years ago

Post the address info then, pussy boy.

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John - KD5YI 15 years ago

Not enough brainpower. He can't even calculate the time for light to traverse from Earth to Jupiter.

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John - KD5YI 15 years ago

*My* address is not hidden. Show me what you got.

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John - KD5YI 15 years ago

*My* address is not hidden. Show me what you got, Slimey. (Reposted to add honorific)

Or, should the honorific be "Runt"? All your nyms and statements are so confusing.

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Michael A. Terrell 15 years ago

DimBlob still looking for his manhood?

You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid? on it, because it's Teflon coated.

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John - KD5YI 15 years ago

Remember in Monty Python and the Holy Grail how the knight got all his limbs cut off and insisted he was about to win? Like DimBlob still thinking he *has* a manhood.

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