It's been discussed here a few times before, I beleve we were
sceptical, mostly. But he nonetheless gets $13 million in investment
for something that doesn't work. Well, at least he admits it, sort
of. Other people with things that do work get nothing. - K
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Detroit Free Press
http://ww
Sorry about that.. i guess it is the medium. I misinterpreted what you
were saying.
Of course.. this Is kind of silly since the 'car doesnt exist' ha.
but if you can just compress the ambient air.. there certainly could be
benefits such as not
having to deal with pure hydrogen and oxygen.
a
: "Crabb, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: [biofuel] air car
> I am afraid that i don't see what all this has to do with what i said.
> I was talking about the potential benefits of a car that could run on the
> energ
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>
> >- Original Message -
> >From: "Crabb, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To:
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> >Subject: RE: [biofuel] air car
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> > I am sure the transmission loss fac
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From: "Crabb, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: [biofuel] air car
> I am sure the transmission loss factor vs gas formulation cost has been
> beaten to death in other discussions of EVs
I am sure the transmission loss factor vs gas formulation cost has been
beaten to death in other discussions of EVs.
But just to make is more simple.
assume your Solar panel is sitting on your roof.
there wont be too much of a transmission losses.
so all day long, you can compress air in a tank
Of course.. since they will need to tax this like they will tax you for
making your own bio-diesel..
they will effectively be taxing air...
ha
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>Subject: RE: Taxed To DEATH
>$1.67 a GALLON
Consider for a moment the possibility of a conventional IC engine powered
vehicle that could convert much of the energy wasted in braking (engine and
conventional brakes) into compressed air storage that would be in turn used
to supercharge the IC engine when again under load thereby increasing
What would make the AIR CAR more feasible is to use liquid nitrogen (LN)
and have a LN generator at home. Any one know how to make LN cheaply?
David Wood
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> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:43:40 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific.
Ok. thanks.
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> Hard to say. Here is a more-detailed link:
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> http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
Hello all participants of air car debate,
I think that the technique opens up a range of interesting solutions
and will try to mention a few,
1. The major value is not as an energy
>2. Several times on this list, people have pointed out the flaws in
> looking at single stage or a few stages efficiency. Only a few
> weeks ago, Keith wrote in an elegant way about this.
Do you happen to recall what thread this was in?
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Thanks for some interesting ideas. I have been debating with someone
in the global energy options about vehicles powered by Liquid Nitrogen
and it has also raised some of these issues. While that type of power
concept does not appear to be nearly as well-developed, I think that
it could be inclu
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Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> >you are forgetting how much petroleum will have to be burned to compress
the
> >air. next ..
Hello all participants of air car debate,
I think that the technique opens up a range of interesting solutions
and will try to mention a few,
1. The major value is not as an energy efficient way of running a car.
As such, I agree with several of you, that pointed out its lack of
conve
>you are forgetting how much petroleum will have to be burned to compress the
>air. next ..
Fossil Fuels such as coal and natural gas in power plants, but
petroleum would seem less likely. Very few electricity producing
power plants use petroleum. Hawaii and maybe a few other places.
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, September 13, 2002 7:38 PM
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
The air car makes sense, I don't know much but I know that air under
pressure
could ignite it's energy. The only problem is that it takes a large quantity
of air for such a small amount of energy.I
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> The air car makes sense, I don't know much but I know that air under
pressure
> could ignite it's energy. The only problem is that it takes a large
quantity
The air car makes sense, I don't know much but I know that air under
pressure
could ignite it's energy. The only problem is that it takes a large quantity
of air for such a small amount of energy.I' heard about ten years ago that an
engine can run on air alone so this is not something new. Ima
Hence the 5# bag of #13 rubberbands in the glove box... :-)
Todd Swearingen
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To:
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> they don't :-)
>
> technically, a compressed tan
I am going to continue to watch their efforts with an open mind. I am
interested to find out what energy efficiency they are able to realize
in converting the air into motion. I am also interested to learn the
energy efficiency of compression. From their web page it would appear
that there is m
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Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:43:40 -0500, you wrote:
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> >Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. It was a long
> >day... How do they
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. It was a long
> day... How do they control the air going into the engine and how is the
> air exhausted? Does it op
: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Air car.
> >Can anyone tell me how air powered cars work?
>
> http://www.theaircar.com/UKPressrelease.html#Eng
>
> >How does it work?
> >
> >90m3 of compressed air is stored in fibre tanks. The expansion
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:21 PM
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> Can anyone tell me how air powered cars work?
>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:43:40 -0500, you wrote:
>Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. It was a long
>day... How do they control the air going into the engine and how is the
>air exhausted? Does it operate like a four cycle engine or 2 cycle?
Hard to say. Here is a more-d
Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. It was a long
day... How do they control the air going into the engine and how is the
air exhausted? Does it operate like a four cycle engine or 2 cycle?
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>Can anyone tell me how air powered cars work?
http://www.theaircar.com/UKPressrelease.html#Eng
>How does it work?
>
>90m3 of compressed air is stored in fibre tanks. The expansion of this air
>pushes the pistons and creates movement. The atmospheric temperature is used
>to re-heat the eng
Can anyone tell me how air powered cars work?
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Hi Dick, Pedro and All,
Pedro, thanks for the URL.
The tanks are huge and wouldn't be practical to
change though with a cooling system, more weight, they
could be filled fairly fast, 10 minutes from very
large storage tanks at even higher pressures.
To quote their figures
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From: "jerry dycus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] air car missconceptions, you got that right:
> Hi Dick and All,
> --- Dick Carlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
negre's aircar is an urban, repeat, urban vehicle. it is not designed or meant
to travel on i-95 from boston to ny. it is meant to travel within an urban
environment, moving driver plus four passengers.
it uses 70 % of the road space, and costs 25 % of what the selectra costs. it
weighs 700 +
Hi Dick and All,
--- Dick Carlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> the air car is presently manufactured in france. it
> is a thoroughly road tested vehicle. there is one us
> franchise already, so local non-believers will soon
> be able to stand corrected.
Do you have an URL for it? Ho
how these threads take off !!!
anyhow, here's a few items of info that seem to have been overlooked:
high pressure (over 3000 psi) tanks are installed in all sort of passenger
carrying vehicles, such as aeroplanes, cars, and buses.
all big birds have high pressure hydraulic reservoirs, usuall
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