Engine that runs on air

[ELKCHSR]

Here is another invention for those that use fossile fuels to run their metal dinasours.
I put some thing up a couple day's ago about alternative energy and got nothing. Well time to put up some thing else. If you can't or won't use whats available, and still need to use your gas guzzeler, you have no room to say any thing about how or where your fuel comes from that you power your life with...
No matter where it comes from!!!

Australian inventor makes engine that runs off air

MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) - An Australian inventor claims to have made the world's first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air.

The vehicle is being tried out by contractors in Melbourne's parks and gardens over the next 12 months as an alternative to conventional diesel or petrol engines.

The engine's designer, Angelo Di Pietro from Melbourne company Engineair, said the engine produced no pollutants and had only two moving parts, increasing its efficiency over conventional designs.

Di Pietro said it used compressed air to drive a rotary engine, abandoning the pistons and cylinders seen in regular designs.

The vehicle being tested in Melbourne has reached 50 kilometres an hour (31 miles an hour) in the workshop and had proved more efficient than battery-powered golf carts.

Di Pietro said the engine's potential was immense and he claimed to have attracted interest from the United States, China, the Netherlands and Britain.

 

[2fastnaz]

Ok but what source does he use to compress the air?

 

[ELKCHSR]

I don't know, I was looking for that part, I am wondering if they put it in a cylinder and just run air thru it until it is all gone...

 

[chas031]

EC,
Did you find a link to the company? Traded publicly? Confirmed viability?? Production costs and plans. Forcasting??

Chas

 

[ELKCHSR]

No, that is all I was able to pick up from the New's, I will go back in and see if they have any thing else related...

 

[snake river rufus]

bump the troll

 

[ELKCHSR]

Lets see if Rueters will let me post one of their photos...

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I looked all thru the article and couldn't get any links to any companies or any thing to look it up, you guy's have every thing I could find...

 

[chas031]

EC,
Here's a couple of links for info.
http://www.engineair.com.au/development.htm

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

Chas

 

[ELKCHSR]

Thanks.... Looking them up as I type this...

 

[JoseCuervo]

Originally posted by ELKCHSR:
Here is another invention for those that use fossile fuels to run their metal dinasours.
I put some thing up a couple day's ago about alternative energy and got nothing. Well time to put up some thing else. If you can't or won't use whats available, and still need to use your gas guzzeler, you have no room to say any thing about how or where your fuel comes from that you power your life with...
No matter where it comes from!!!

ElkCheese,

Are you really that clueless about Physics, that you would embarrass yourself with statements like that?

You might try looking for clues, next time you are on one of your hikes....

 

[ELKCHSR]

What is it with you and your cheap talk, say nothing coments that actually go no where and try to brow beat and bully while in the process...
Who really cares whether you think I'm clueless or not... It doesn't matter for a hill of beans.

What really matters is that you show a little credibility and state how it is that I stabbed Moosie in the back.

Or all it does is make you out to be a big liar and what ever you say holds no credence...
And speaking of liars.... You even mentioned a while back that if I called you that again, it was going to cost me big money....
I'm still waiting, and I am not going to go back and find it. I don't need to, I don't streach the truth about others to degrade or demoralize just to see who I can get to squirm or not...

So again, just answer the question.....

How DID I stab Moosie in the back....

 

[JoseCuervo]

So should we take that as a "no", that you don't have a clue about how physics works???

Cheese,
I kinda think you are the poster boy for the value of an education (or lack there of...)

Let me give you a "clue" on this one... "Conservation of Energy".... Now can you see how foolish you look??

 

[ELKCHSR]

I am not even going to bother reading what you post, you should have been able to notice that by now....

What I am going to do is keep asking the question, until YOU answer it....

You want to show foolishness and lack of education, keep making statements you have no answers for....

These are your standards, stand up to the bar you have set....

How did I stab Moosie in the back?

 

[JoseCuervo]

Originally posted by ELKCHSR:
I am not even going to bother reading ..., you should have been able to notice that by now....

Yes, I think we have all noticed that, by now...

 

[ELKCHSR]

That is good, but obviously the point isn't being made.
I heard once from an old man many years ago, "You can be proud, or stubborn to the point of being stupid, or even to your own demise"
Of course you don't seem to understand things that I post, so you may need to call for an interpretor again...
I also have noticed that you are the only one that ever needs one.... What gives with that?

Oh, no... More questions that can't be answered...

But back to the one at hand....

How did I stab Moosie in the back?

 

[wyomingtim]

I don't think any alternative power for vehicles will overtake the gasoline powered vehicles until a few things happen:
1. They must have comperable power so as to maintain the higher speeds. (i.e. 80 mph on the highway)

2. They must be able to travel a comperable distance. Right now I can go 500+ miles on one tank in the family minivan.

3. They must be able to refill/recharge in a short amount of time. Who wants to be traveling and wait an hour plus for something to charge up again?

4. Must be cost friendly.

There are probably some that I am forgetting, but this covers the basics. I would be all for switching to something cleaner, but there is only so much I can/will sacrifice. In my opinion, clean fuels should start with fleet vehicles (delivery trucks, postal vehicles, etc.) in the big cities. If you can start eliminating the emissions in teh high concentration areas, I believe that you would have a greater impact faster.

Who knows, it may come about in my lifetime.
Elkchsr, you stabbed Moosie in teh back? Where do I send teh get well cards to?

 

[ELKCHSR]

I would 100% agree with you Tim.
Basic economics and well stated.

What I am putting these topics up for is the fact that I have seen people whine constantly about these things they just can't stand and never do any thing at all to help improve the problem. Expecting "Them" or "They" to fix it...
I say, if some one doesn't like some thing, put their money and time where their mouths are and help cure the ill....
If they keep using what it is they despise, it gives them no room to say a word, no matter where it comes from or how it has to be made.
I love using my truck, this puter, electricity, etc....
I don't believe that places need to be trashed to make it happen, but if it is shown it won't be, then what the hey... Go for it...
I did logging in Wasington for a lot of years, never believing clear cuts were the way to go. So to fix the problem in my own way, I would only thin, unless the job called for removing every thing, (putting up/protecting structures or such).
Educating the people that I worked for as a constant about keeping their places healthy and vibrant, and working with using IPM (Integrated, Pest, Management) and MIST (Minimal Impact Supression Tactics).
The first is you don't have to kill every thing in your environment to rid some thing you don't particularly like. and the second means to do the least damage to the area you are working and still manage your objective....

 

[chas031]

One of the first applications I thought of was just that only not city based!! I can see wide range acceptance in certain markets but it not only has to be costs effective, there has to be significant savings in use, maintenance, repair, warranty, and REFILL!! Look at Ford's electric car!!

Chas

 

[ELKCHSR]

Those would be the biggie....
I have stated it before and got hammered on the topic that this world, especially this country runs on the bottom dollar.
If it can't be done cost effective, (Cept most of the Government), it won't work.
Even the Gov. is put to a set of costs they have to abide by for the most part. Definatly not alway's.