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Air-powered car?
compressed air is one of the most expensive things in our manufacturing
budget.
very inefficient, wet, and oily, unless processed right.
On 10/29/06, raveracer77 <raveracer77@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> 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 Racer
> Currently:
> NEW!! 91 Jetta GLI 2.0L 16V
> '81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2
>
> '89 Jetta GTX 1.8L 16V
> '87 Audi 4000 Quattro
> http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
> '72 Triumph GT6
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> http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-gt6-1.jpg
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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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> --- On Sat 10/28, Mtl-Marc < marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca > wrote:
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> From: Mtl-Marc [mailto: marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca]
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> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
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> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:02:50 -0400
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> Subject: RE: Air-powered car?
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> 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> Currently:> NEW!! 91 Jetta GLI 2.0L16V> '81 Scirocco Mk1
> 1.8L 8V Digifant 2>
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