Did anyone here an item on radio 2 yesterday about a car that has been developed (In France, I think) that runs on compressed air? Apparantly it can refilled by the air compressor at any garage in two minutes and has a range of 150 miles with a top speed of 69 mph. It can also be filled overnight on a domestic compressor of the type used to inflate air-beds, etc. The engine is said to be scheduled for production sometime next year.
I checked the date and it definately wasn't April 1st. If true, how the hell would they put a tax on that?
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They'd probably tax all the machines burning up all the fuel and creating all the emissions and all the other sins presently attributed to the car in order to pump the compressed air to power these things. Plus ca change...
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Did anyone here an item on radio 2 yesterday about a car that has been developed (In France, I think) that runs on compressed air? Apparantly it can refilled by the air compressor at any garage in two minutes and has a range of 150 miles with a top speed of 69 mph. It can also be filled overnight on a domestic compressor of the type used to inflate air-beds, etc. The engine is said to be scheduled for production sometime next year.
I'll believe it when I see it !!
Although I haven't (and I'm not going to try to, because I'm not clever enough !!) done any calculations, I just can't imagine how you can store enough energy in the form of compressed air in a car to enable it to travel 150 miles. Did someone get the decimal point in the wrong place ? It does happen !! For example, it happened when "they" originally (1939-1945*) publicised the benefits of eating spinach ~ strange but true !!
* As you get older you realise that you are becoming increasingly full of useless information !!
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Are we to infer eating spinach contributes to the generation of hot air? If so, then we're back to cows and global warming......
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L'escargot wrote:
>>... *As you get older you realise that you are becoming increasingly full of useless information !!
No, no, no! Useless information is excellent and the main benefit of age - did you know for example there's more plastic flamingoes in the world than real ones? They don't teach you that sort of thing at school! ;-)
Lee.
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I see you have to burn fuel in it to get any performance. Surely this idea has been used at sea for many years? In a device called the torpedo!
Tomo
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And if the 300 atmosphere pressure vessel bursts the effect might be similar.
Tomo
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And if the 300 atmosphere pressure vessel bursts the effect might be similar. Tomo
Similar problems with hydrogen. Some manufactures favour a tank kept at -253ºc (eg BMWs 7series V8, 184bhp, 133mph).
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Tom
Discussed, and pretty much dismissed on this site a while back. I'm sure someone will find the link.
When you read it doesn't use a domestic compressor, or garage air line. It does use very high pressure storage, so does appear to store realistic quantities of energy. The 'engine/expander seems a bit odd though, and the figures don't realy stack up. Somewhat flexible with the verite on sales (allegedly).
Regards
John S
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Remember that the 150 mile range might be in the same vein as the "cars" that do 9000 mpg in experiments...
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Remember that the 150 mile range might be in the same vein as the "cars" that do 9000 mpg in experiments...
Or a V8 Land Rover at about 10mpg
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Found it:
November last year
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=2344
Regards
John S
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Er, no, sorry that's not it.
Can't work this 'search' system!
Regards
John S
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