Introducing the Air Car!!!
February 11, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Introducing the Air Car. Ready by the end of 2008, this green-friendly car might be the answer to the oil problem. It`s fuel? 100 percent air.
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February 11th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
We’ve all heard rumors about such a thing. It sounds wonderful, completely clean, no foreign oil. What could go wrong!? You have to be able to extract more energy out of your fuel than you put it. Significantly more with losses due to friction, air resistance, and other mechanical losses. How is that going to happen with air? You can use compressed air because kinetic energy is readily available in the decompression, but you have to use energy to compress the air. Air cars are gift wrapped promise of a perpetual motion machine, not physically possible.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:50 am
This isn’t free energy, or perpetual motion. It allows us to start storing and using solar, wind, nuclear, and even coal in place of gasoline.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
This comes in the category of “Things that have been Assigned to the Dustbin of History.”
February 16th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Right, Matt, the video doesn’t say the air car is a perpetual motion or free energy machine. It seems like a good idea and may very well turn out to be a good idea.
The thing we need to remember before jumping on the bandwagon and claiming the air car is the magic pill (there are no magic pills) is that it takes X amount of energy to move a given vehicle from A to B at any given speed regardless of whether that energy comes from the energy stored in compressed air, diesel fuel or gasoline. For the air car, the energy in the compressed air will come from the electricity used to run the compressor that refills the car. The electricity will come from…. where? A nuclear powered generator? A coal powered generator? A wind powered generator? A solar panel array? Well, those all have problems we are familiar with. Thus the air car, while it may relocate the pollution generator and move it from under the hood of the vehicle to a distant electric generation plant, doesn’t solve *all* problems. It could reduce/eliminate pollution from internal combustion engines in cities, however, so I do hope the technology will be investigated further and that systems (like numerous refueling stations) will be put in place to accomodate the vehicles. Hell, I’d buy one just to use in the city, perhaps a compressor too to refuel it overnight at my place.