Compressed-air car...
A car that runs on compressed air -- and it's real.
The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000.
Which incompetent Detroit asshat will try to kill it or ban it from use in the United States? Will it be GM? Will it be Ford, whose stock price is at a pathetic $6/share? Or will it be the agri-businesses in the midwest who are betting on ethanol?
source: http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2008/01/this_is_awesome.html
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It is when every respondent to your threads about John Howard being *that little Poison Gnome!* tells you about where those multiple threads belong!
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Oh yeah, I wanted to check that site out again but I'd forgotten the name, thanks for reminding me! 'political animal' isn't easily remembered... I'll start posting there again.
http://bottleweb.org/jason
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Congratulations on your high achievment: you should be very proud.
"Political Animal" surely enjoyed your contribution, aswell. The poster named "Hoppy" would probably appreciate any other ideas you had to bounce off!
Everything is OK in the end. If it is not OK it is not the end.
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Hi Keithy!
Sorry for my absence, I've just graduated from the University of Queensland (Mechanical and Space Engineering). I'm now in thailand, and Being in Bangkok I can definitely apprecaite the need for renewable fuels!
To be honest I've never seen something like a air-powered car being proposed. It's certainly an interesting idea but I'd like to raise some questions. I'm by no means trying to play devil's advocate here, but I think ideas like this always need some scrutiny:
Firstly, how much pressure does it need? The big let-down for hydrogen cars is the pressure required to contain the gas. Imagine this: We are trying to drive a car with a gas that contains both compression AND chemical energy, yet the required pressure is too high. How much pressure would we need if we don't have any chemical energy (i.e. air) and are trying to achieve comparable mileage.
The obvious answer is ofcourse.... more pressure. I'll look into this when I get some time though...
http://bottleweb.org/jason