AIR CARS

Chilenita · Comandante

RE: AIR CARS

caliche · Guru

i though u were talkin about flyin cars.... this thread sucks... sorry Dogo..

TV Buff · TOP Guru

The weather's so nice today, ain't it?

My contribution to this thread.

Dogo · Comandante

Quixote wrote:

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

This is a very marketable idea. Some concerns I see are the lightness of the vehicle and the lifespan of the air tanks, but I'm sure these will get progressively better with time.

I doubt that nowadays, with available alloys, composites and plastics, that it wouldn't be an easily solvable 'problem'. I think the main problem with the engine would be if it can produce enough horsepower to satisfy our needs/wants, which would be directly determined by how much you can compress the air (more pressure, more power, obviously), and how much you'd have to compress it to have a high and steady amount of pressure to have a reasonable amount of power (my guess is: EXTREMELY high), and what would be a safe level of compression without it becoming a rolling 'air bomb'.

AMansPath · Regular Plus

Back in high school we did an experiment where by passing a small electric current through regular distilled water it would cause it to separate into its 2 primary elements hydrogen and oxigen. Hydrogen of course being an extremely combustible gas and oxigen being necessary for ignition. I had an idea (probably not the only person to think of this) of a water powered vehicle whereby pistons would be driven by an explosion (like a regular car) exept instead of ignating a gasoline and air mixture it would be a hydrogen and oxygen mixture obtained by the electrolysis of water. With the advantage being that water is obviously easy to come by and the only byproducts of the reactions would be water again and some carbon dioxide neither of which are to bad for the environment plus the reaction has been proven to have a theoretical maximum efficiency is between 80% and 94% as opposed to a regular car engine which is somewhere around 30%. Only draw backs seem to be that Hydrogen when stored has a nasty habit of blowing things up which is probably a bad thing.

completely unrelated youtube video:

Quixote · Guru

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

This is a very marketable idea. Some concerns I see are the lightness of the vehicle and the lifespan of the air tanks, but I'm sure these will get progressively better with time.

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Damn it! Update window just freaked me out! I hate it when that happens! Grrrr.

Dogo · Comandante

Hugo · Guru

A nadie mas le interesa este articulo? You know what this article reminded me of? Somehow it reminded me of the jets guy at the LA Olympics '84 lol whatever happened to the flying cars by the year 2000?!

Dogo · Comandante

"More than 10 years ago, a French Formula One expert had an idea: Instead of running cars on the chemical energy of gasoline, why not run them on the physical energy of compressed air?

Now that vision is extremely close to becoming reality..."

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