Re: Re: French zero pollution car available in US
From: Midvally (midvally@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon 25 Feb 2002 - 11:13:18 EST
This is not the first time I heard of this scheme. Someone in Northern
Canada was running a compressed air v8 engine on the output from a 10 hp
Honda gas engine. I think the idea is that you have the power there when
you need it but you are only using your reserve air for so long before it
runs out. It is a bit like running air tools, eventfully your reservoir of
air runs out and you don't have sufficient output to satisfy the demands on
the system. The old perpetual motion machine in a new guise. The very
early diesel engines used compressed air for startup which worked fine for
stationary engines but was impractical for mobil equipment. The compressed
air car could work if it had either a very large tank or very high pressure
but the limitation is still there without auxiliary power to keep the tank
topped up.
Dan
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From: "citpro" <citpro@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: French zero pollution car available in US
> One more trick to hide energy consumption and fossil fuel use.
> Please don't get tricked by these rediculous schemes. Unless the
> vehicle has it's own power source that is a nuclear reactor of some
> sort, the ultimate energy provider must be fossil fuel. Exceptions
> are elctricity produced by existing Hydro electric, Nuclear power
> plants, or solar, wind, or waves, which have dismally failed to
> provide enough power to run a useful automobile. Compressed air is
> only a transferred energy. Air is not compressed without the use of
> energy. And remember that in order to satisfy government, you are
> going to have to haul around heavy compressed air tanks that are
> probably going to be dated and expensive to replace. Hopefully you
> will have air compressor brakes that can recover some air. And of
> course you have rupture danger on accident to deal with too. What
> next? Bill
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