Air powered cars.....we're sorted folks....

So Glad

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=D-A3XHFT5qc

There you go.........cars that run on AIR!

Only needs a bit of electricity to compress the air, but this is phenomenal folks!

We should keep our fingers crossed that this doesn't get covered up like most free-energy type inventions!

Woooohooooo!!

AlmightyCushion

It's not free energy.

Ruu_Old

Meh, I prefer the hoverboard.:)

Terry

I was going to click on the link, but then I saw who provided it.

Now we definitely know lizard people are involved in the petrol industry.

connundrum

So Glad wrote:

Only needs a bit of electricity

Thats where they'll get ya

I'm all for these ideas btw, up with these sort of things!

peasant

My name's on their pre-order "I'm interested in buying one" - list for almost two years now.

Needless to say I'm still waiting for any sort of info out of them other than than the automated "we have received your email" response

togster

Lizard power!

Wertz

So we just need the electricity eh?
Perhaps we could harness lightning bolts....or maybe cold fusion....no, no, wait I got it....a legion of superfit, cloned monkeys on bicycles with all their little dynamos wired to the national grid.

Take that global warming!

Voodu Child

A bunch of cylinders under your arse with compressed air at 4500 psi, in a flimsy little lightweight car.

That'd be great fun in a crash.

Anybody see the mythbuster episode where they shot compressed air cyldinders through block walls?

Scruff

cars currently run on air. All you need is a bit of petrol or diesel and a spark and hey presto!

peasant

Actually, you could create the electricity needed to produce the compressed air from sources which don't lend themselves that well to normal, grid bound electricity use.

For example wind power, solar power, tidal power stations, little water driven generators, etc.

Transforming the "alternative energy" straight into stored compressed air instead of into batteries or the grid could prove fairly effective.

A little windmill in your garden doesn't do much good when it comes to powering your cooker or washing machine, but let it slowly fill a tank of compressed air every day or two and all of a sudden you can utilise energy that otherwise would not be harnessed.

muppetkiller

voodoo_child wrote:

A bunch of cylinders under your arse with compressed air at 4500 psi, in a flimsy little lightweight car.

That'd be great fun in a crash.

Anybody see the mythbuster episode where they shot compressed air cyldinders through block walls?

Actually if you watch the clip the cylinders are made of carbon fibre so won't explode, they'll just crack.

ScumLord

I can't watch the video right now but I'm assuming this is just an air compressor like allot of factories use to power they're tools. These cars don't really run on air though they run on electricity that's what you must put into them for them to work and you still have the problem of where that electricity comes from. we're already having trouble meeting our electrical needs without adding a couple of million electricity guzzling cars to it.

I don't see electricity as the way forward methane powered cars (along with methane powered everything else) is the way forward because there's a ready supply available that won't ever run out.

Voodu Child

muppetkiller wrote:

Actually if you watch the clip the cylinders are made of carbon fibre so won't explode, they'll just crack.

I watched it.

If a compressed air tank 'cracks', enough energy to drive you around for a couple of hundred km will all be released instantaneously...if that's not an explosion, i don't know what is.

I wouldn't want to be sitting on top of one when it happened.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Wertz wrote:

So we just need the electricity eh?
Perhaps we could harness lightning bolts....or maybe cold fusion....no, no, wait I got it....a legion of superfit, cloned monkeys on bicycles with all their little dynamos wired to the national grid.

Take that global warming!

You had me at Monkeys!

slipss

ScumLord wrote:

I don't see electricity as the way forward methane powered cars (along with methane powered everything else) is the way forward because there's a ready supply available that won't ever run out.

I kinda agree methane is a pretty good alternative in the short term but you are still left with the problem of producing and harnessing the methane, and the numbers don't work out if you are relying on methane power to produce methane. To take a simple example, ten cows being used to produce biowaste for methane will require far more methane to raise and take care of and then collect the methane in a scaleable way than they will produce. The system wouldn't sustain itself very well....or at least thats what this fella smoking a pipe in the pub told me one time.

You Suck!

Just walk to the shop for fcks sake!

So Glad

You Suck! wrote:

Just walk to the shop for fcks sake!

I agree with this man!

Nehpets

I hate when people link to YouTube

MooseJam

I'm eagerly waiting for the fart powered car, you'll just need to insert the hose into your anus and away you go, a bit like mr garisons invention but gentler on the insert

Blitzkrieger

This sort of car has been around for donkeys - it's never going to work in that format. A modern car with it's conviences and safety systems is just too heavy. A modified version of it could be good though. If you tied the braking system into a compressor, you could use braking energy to compress gas and then release it to aid acceleration. The weight of a modern car is, again, the main drawback.

Capt'n Midnight

cba looking at the video

is it the MDI / Tata one ?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4217016.html
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2185958/india-build-air-car

http://www.google.ie/search?q=indian+air+powered+car

ScumLord

slipss wrote:

I kinda agree methane is a pretty good alternative in the short term but you are still left with the problem of producing and harnessing the methane, and the numbers don't work out if you are relying on methane power to produce methane. To take a simple example, ten cows being used to produce biowaste for methane will require far more methane to raise and take care of and then collect the methane in a scaleable way than they will produce. The system wouldn't sustain itself very well....or at least thats what this fella smoking a pipe in the pub told me one time.

Just hook the power plant up to the sewage system and put garbage disposal units in evey home. There's enough **** out there to power everything 3 times over I'm sure of it.

DemonOfTheFall

All it is is a battery powered car. Using compressed air as the battery. Cut out the middle man and just charge a load of Li-Ion batteries instead of doing something retarded like compressing air.

peasant

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

All it is is a battery powered car. Using compressed air as the battery. Cut out the middle man and just charge a load of Li-Ion batteries instead of doing something retarded like compressing air.

Batteries have two major disadvantages ...they're bloomin' heavy and they're very touchy with regards to charge/discharge cycles.

Plus they take a fair bit of energy to make and create a bit of a headache come end of life (which can be fairly quick in some cases)

DemonOfTheFall

peasant wrote:

Plus they take a fair bit of energy to make and create a bit of a headache come end of life (which can be fairly quick in some cases)

Good point. The fact that they take a lot of natural resources to make doesn't help either. Roll on ultra-capacitors I suppose...

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Ah give it a few years and Steorn will sort us out with all the free energy we need.

Oman

Sean_K wrote:

Ah give it a few years and Steorn will sort us out with all the free energy we need.

ya steorn that company with the perpetual motion machine. they put on one demotrastion. theres something wrong with the lighting and they dont bother to put on another one yes why dont we all depend on them for the car of the future

Terry

steorn is a skanger name.
Hey, Steorn. Gis a bleedin' fag, will ye!

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Oman wrote:

ya steorn that company with the perpetual motion machine. they put on one demotrastion. theres something wrong with the lighting and they dont bother to put on another one yes why dont we all depend on them for the car of the future

:rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

peasant wrote:

Batteries have two major disadvantages ...they're bloomin' heavy and they're very touchy with regards to charge/discharge cycles.

Plus they take a fair bit of energy to make and create a bit of a headache come end of life (which can be fairly quick in some cases)

There are large losses with batteries, regenerative braking means maybe only a third of the energy gets back in to the battery. I'm sure air can do better there.

Also air is a little easier to dispose of enviromentally.

leninbenjamin

regardless of whether or not it's feasible air will never become the main stay. there would be no future in it for the likes of Shell or the other large fossil fuel companies. they will block any move manufacturers make.

Oman

hey who knows someone may have made a perpetual motion machine but was hushed up by some government. its a conspirisie i tells ya