Mega corporation buys out invention that would put oil and gas out of business

[ktlight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUZ3MD5F6s

"Published on 24 Sep 2014
In this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Barcelona Spain to meet Miguel Celades who was the offical representatives for the MDI Air Car. The technology and car were shelved after government pressure and a corporation buying out the company. "

[Oouthere]

This would not end anything. It takes a great deal of energy to compress air.

[joeecho]

"Published on 24 Sep 2014
In this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Barcelona Spain to meet Miguel Celades who was the offical representatives for the MDI Air Car. The technology and car were shelved after government pressure and a corporation buying out the company. "

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[Koyaanisqatsi]

Your butthole does it for free. But i like how you wont accept things at face value. Doesn't make you a cynic, dont let em tell you otherwise!

[Zionbrion]

This would not end anything. It takes a great deal of energy to compress air.
I am no engineer, but would it be possible to create a system in which compressed air is continually created while driving?

[Magnus]

There are chemical processes that could create violent outbursts of gas, which in turn could be used to compress air to some degree. There are two issues with this method, one is that the gas produced may be poisonous, the other issue is, will this method be efficient enough to build the considerable pressure of 300 bar.

[E.g. Hydrogen Peroxide]

[DeDukshyn]

Full size original Air Hogs!! Yeah! ;)

(Air hogs is now general toy brand. They started out making toys (from what I recall as a kid -- think 30+ years ago) that had a tank and a hand pump - you would pump the tank up with the pump, then gave the engine (if it was a car it would be to just give it a bit of a shove) and it would take off running on a real air powered piston engine!! They were all plastic and not very efficient but, could they ever go if you pumped them up enough!! -- think modern day 9.6 v RCs -- they just would only last for a run or two though without having to "refill" them.)

[DeDukshyn]

This would not end anything. It takes a great deal of energy to compress air.

True, but it can be done without fossil fuels. From what I could gather from the quick clips in the video, there are two "tanks" - one filled with low pressure air at a fair volume. It appears that the low pressure air may drive the mechanics to power a slow moving piston (inside the 2nd "tank -- its more of a cylinder), that creates a much higher pressure at lower volume, almost continuously. I am not sure what happens when that piston reaches it's limit, but I am curious, as it would have to be "reset" somehow, which requires more energy, or pehaps it can be made "reversible" at the flip of a valve - this would make sense).

From the very little of what was shown, it looks like they did try to dress all the potential issues. Overall efficiency may still be an issue.

We could use wind power to drive a turbine that compresses air, for transfer from your home to the car, potentially; or perhaps your "home gym" - instead of weights - provides resistance that can be used to compress air for various uses; don't doubt we as humans are masters of wasting energy, then complaining it takes "too much energy" for this or that.

[DeDukshyn]

This would not end anything. It takes a great deal of energy to compress air.
I am no engineer, but would it be possible to create a system in which compressed air is continually created while driving?

Not efficiently. Braking energy could be used though to refill a tank, but it would never work out as "continuously" - you would still have to recharge the tank.