The AIR car!

[f1anatic]

http://theaircar.com/

 

Any takers ?

Between this and the hype-brids ?

[IwannaSportSedan]

Not a chance.

 

Whoopie... compressed air reverse driving an air compressor to power wheels.

 

The fact that it tries to ride the fence between fuel and compressed air, which charges batteries, which power the engine, to compress the air, to feed the engine, to burn the fuel, to compress the air and charge the batteries, which run the engine to compress the air, to....

 

and on, and on... seems like the latest iteration of a perpetual motion machine. It seems VERY complex for what it is trying to do. Complexity is not always your friend, and if one part of the system breaks down, it usually affects the rest of the system.

 

And then you have three inefficient systems bleeding energy, and needing maintenance, instead of just one.

 

Someone has to use energy transferred over power lines, up-converted, down-converted, and a bunch lost as heat, to compress that air to put IN the car in the first place.

 

OR you have to fill it with fuel. which we already do anyway. Big whoop.

 

OR you have to charge the batteries, which takes electrical power from somewhere, and batteries are not infinitely rechargeable, nor are they all that environmentally friendly to work with.

 

And then all the car does is let it out to push little tiny wheels on a golf-cart of a car.

 

Why not have a big baloon on the top, and have a valve on it, and when you want to go, you open the valve, and it pushes your car like a ruptured pressure tank. Oh. That would get you 50 feet really fast, and then you'd have to do it again.

 

Dumb. D-U-M, Dumb.

 

Secondary energy transfer mediums, electricity, compressed air, hydrogen, and even alcohol to a certain extent, just shift the balance of energy production to some other sector, usually the electrical power grid, and sometimes fresh water sources for hydrogen or alcohol.

 

More energy in than out is not good fuel economy. Even if the fuel isn't in your car directly, like plug-in hybrids, full electric cars, or alcohol burners (where it takes other fuel to produce and provide alcohol fuel)

 

It is actually more efficient all the way around to have the primary fuel in the vehicle, like gasoline, diesel, LPG, second-hand veggie or bio-diesel, or whatever.