Air-powered car?

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

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.org

Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:02:50 -0400

Subject: RE: Air-powered car?



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