Compressed-air engine, revisited

splinemodel

http://www.engineair.com.au/



Looks like a Melbourne, Australia company beat the other guys to the punch, and they claim vastly superior performance (of course). I still don't have much confidence in the longevity of this product as a mainstream powerplant, but regardless it's another interesting development in the foray of alternative fuels.



For those of you technically inclined, the engine is something of a rotary hybrid, relatively similar to Wankel's original concept but quite different than the rotaries in production today.

xterra48

the problem is still how do you compress the air, unless that process is clean than the system is not worth doing. the future is ethanol and biodiesel.

tht

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Originally posted by xterra48

the problem is still how do you compress the air, unless that process is clean than the system is not worth doing. the future is ethanol and biodiesel.

Air is the "fuel", so their concept vehicles would carry along bottles of compressed air. It doesn't look like it'll replace auto engines, but for things like golf carts and indoor vehicles, it could have a market because of its zero pollution qualities.



Of course, somewhere somehow, the air has to be compressed in the first place. TANSTAAFL.



Tuan

airsluf

Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.



Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.



Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.

scott

Use a geothermal heat pump to compress the air.