Hola Folks!
I stumbled on this newspaper article and posted it a month ago, but
haven't seen anything else about it. If you have more info about it,
I'd appreciate if you shared that. The idea is strongly reminescent of
the Rogers air motor as posted at;
http://www.keelynet.com/energy/airmotor.htm
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The guy is apparently just geting started with it. I had read somewhere
that a 4-6 cylinder engine requires about 500psi to keep the pistons
moving so it was interesting to read that someone was again working on this.
http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=13098
09/06/05 - Floridian's Compressed Air Car
You won't find a gas tank on one local man's car anymore. Jerry Coren of
Bronson took it out, and says he found a different way to make his
engine run: on compressed air. Jerry says he and his brother has the
idea years ago, even with a few people calling them crazy.
Jerry says it works because, "Its an over-riding power of hydraulics. It
pumps more air than the motor will use for air to run it, so its really
a hydraulic over air system." Jerry says after a few mistakes it took
about a year to build.
So far he's only driven it in his driveway, he still has to tweak a few
things before he takes it out on the road.
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=guestblogs&page=blogentry&authorid=25&blogid=21
Air Hybrid - Alternative fuels like compressed natural gas, bio-oil and
alcohol/methanol aren't available at Joe's Texaco or Rotten Robbie's.
Propane is more expensive than gasoline.
A small gasoline powered engine running wide open all the time doing
nothing but turning a compressor via a variable ratio belt drive to
compensate for the variation of pressure in the compressed air tank.
The compressed air routed to pneumatic slaves at the wheels via the
gas pedal, and youre underway. Regenerative braking accomplished with
a simple valve re-routing the pressure from the wheel slaves back to the
air tank and youve recovered the energy used in acceleration. Better
yet, how about multiple engines started automatically in response to
compressed air usage?
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As posted here earlier, Guy Negre and his +5000 psi compressed air
bottle driven aircars have been at it now for at least 6 years with
nothing on the market that I know of yet.
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