Thread: Compressed air car coming with 2010 with 1,000 mile range!
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Old 07-02-2008
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Re: Compressed air car coming with 2010 with 1,000 mile range!
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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate View Post
Yes, but the gasoline 'worst case' requires damage sufficient to cause a rupture and then an additional ignition. In the case of compressed air, once the tank is damaged, the contents actively contribute to a rupture, and there's no additonal ignition required to get your 'worst case'.


Astonishing is an understatement! That would be the infinte motion machine that science has been trying to find for hundreds of years! (And long since determined to be impossible, btw.)
Off the top, my guess is that they would use the gasoline that it does consume to compress the air, or some such thing. I doubt anyone is proposing perfect conservation of energy in useful form.
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