Air-powered car?

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

Ok. maybe an air compressing windmill would be easy enough to build.  :P  I still don't want to be involved in a wreck where my Scirocco is destroyed by shrapnel from your exploding 3000psi air tank.













 --- On Sun 10/29, raveracer77 < raveracer77@yahoo.ca > wrote:

From: raveracer77 [mailto: raveracer77@yahoo.ca]

To: haygood@myway.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:16:13 -0600

Subject: Re: Air-powered car?

















 

    The best way for this to become 

efficient is if we had a way to make our own electricity which there is.  

There is no way to make our own oil so that's got to go.  A solar panel or 

two and a large compressor with a huge holding tank would be a great way to get 

to work and back.

 

      Rave 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: 

  Brian Haygood 

  

  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 

  Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 07:24 

  PM

  Subject: RE: Air-powered car?

  I hate to be the anti-idea-police, but that is really 

  stupid.  OK, so powering a small cart with a couple of large tanks would 

  be fine if you really needed to cut down on the noise a lot or had some other 

  specific constraint that prevented engines from being used, didn't feel like 

  using electric, etc.  Those propane lift trucks are pretty darn quiet 

  over smoothe ground, so I doubt his is all that much quieter.  The idea 

  that it is somehow the wave of the future for engines in general is just 

  dumb.  It's just an air driven motor - not an engine at all.  The 

  air compressor is doing the work and I doubt any of us has an efficient air 

  compressor on hand that can compare with a gas engine.  By the time you 

  burn the coal (yes, about 50% of the US's electricity is made from coal) to 

  make the electricity to use the compressor to put the air in the tank, it's 

  pretty much a lost cause.  Consider how totally freaking hot an air 

  compressor's high pressure line gets and you can tell there is energy 

  being let out of the system at a high rate.  It's a lot 

  like claiming that the car of the future is gravity powered.  Sure, it is 

  zero emission if you don't count having to tow it to the top of the hill, and 

  the tow truck probably has 5 times the emmissions of a Honduh 

  anyway. --- On Sat 10/28, Mtl-Marc < 

  marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca 

  > wrote:From: Mtl-Marc [mailto: marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca]To: 

  scirocco-l@scirocco.orgDate: 

  Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:02:50 -0400Subject: RE: Air-powered 

  car?If only 87 psi available at your local air station, you 

  could always carry aspare can of psi Boost.Marc> > 

  >     I like it, where can I get a couple?  Does 

  this mean at > the pumps I'll be able to get 87 psi, 89 psi and 91 psi 

  airs?> >       Rave Racer> 

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