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On thing is clear anything for the USA is negative towards to compressed
air
as the US corporations are doing other things.
Motorists, however, have come to expect much more from their cars. That's
why some of MDI's critics think that automakers should be focusing not on
air-powered cars but on pneumatic-fuel hybrids. Unlike cars running on
compressed air alone, the greater power available from pneumatic hybrids
would suit full-function, highway-capable vehicles. ...
Congratulations, you've caught up to century-old torpedo propulsion.
They used it because there's no air for combustion underwater, and
torps are too inaccurate to need great range. This was the best:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/torps.htm
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Do you have point here? MDI are looking at it and heating the air entering
the engines.
The spare-no-expense submarines themselves
ran on batteries submerged and Diesels on the
surface.
Also, because in that application the batteries of the time held more energy
than a compressed air motor system - which is only an energy carrier. The
air motors of the time were not that efficient to what is available today.
Things do move on. The bubbles released from a sub would give it away, which
defeats the object of a stealth craft
I work in R&D on alternative energy projects,
and also tinker with them at home, thus my
well-developed BS filter to avoid loser projects
and scatterbrained inventors. I'm only interested
if they focus on analyzing and solving the remaining
problems
In short you can't think out of the box, tinkering with existing technology.
Big corporations have learned through
long and expensive experience
what sells and what doesn't,
Corporations? You are having a laugh of course. You are trying to say they
are innovative? They decide what sells and does not. Anyone with half a
brain can see that the appalling piston IC engine should have been phased
out 60 years ago - 80% of the energy in the tank is wasted. The corporation
have only moved forward when forced to thinking only of their bottom lines.
Recall GM bought up electric zero pollution at burn tramways in US cities
and closed them down.
The forthcoming Chevy Volt does 50mpg running on the IC genny alone - not
batteries. That is an amazing increase in mpg by about 100%. Yet what they
are doing was well known over 100 years ago. It was also well known 30-40
years ago. A specifically designed IC genny tuned to run to optimum
efficiency with a constant speed, feeding an electric motor powering the
wheels. The inefficient power sapping, heavy, space consuming auto
transmission is then gone. All this was known decades ago as motors, IC and
electric, and gennies became more efficient and smaller.
Experimenters had tried it and had good results in mpg. It is just basic
R&D matching the engine to the genny to the electric motor to the car body
weight. Some called it an electric transmission before the word hybrid was
used. Using electric motors give a superb seamless ride. Yet, knowing all
this the corporations have only just responded using this simple well known
and proven technology.
Very few people will put up with any
significant inconvenience to save
energy,
That is true. Energy can be saved with no inconvenience.
When I hear someone lauding corporations I detect BS and that their wages
come from them. 90 years ago there was an abundance of small auto makers all
over the world who made great technological leaps to improve and get their
products sold. Little has progressed since WW2. Toyota, a corporation, came
up with the Prius and took world-wide castigation by the Ludites - which is
now a great success.
The world progressed by individual men or small groups of them, not by money
obsessed corporations.
