you have to look and listen until the end of the clip - they talk about searching a way to run compressors who are filling the airpressed bottles also with air - I only wonder how the energy bilance should work with air when they even have problems to solve this problems with H2 - power since years!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Sheffield
To: Jules Verne Forum
Cc: Pat Moser
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Jules Verne and the Car of the Future
I saw this when it aired (no pun intended) - and all they are doing is using compressed air instead of batteries.
They try and make it seem that it runs on "air" but as you say - it's only the storage medium for energy supplied from some other source.
Patrick
On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Chris Moser wrote:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1248351/car_runs_on_compressed_air/
Something doesn't make sense in this clip - as the compressed air can only return less energy than what was used in the initial compression - so even if the car is made light weight and efficient , there has to be an initial energy consumption and discharge of emissions - unless the initial energy source is hydro electric power or nuclear generated power.
Chris
Received on Fri 18 Apr 2008 - 08:45:23 IDT
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