Re: fuel efficient cars

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Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 18:09:58 MST

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    Battery pollution problems? (Although hydrogen cars should not have these).

    There is the compressed air car. Cost $10,000, tank of air $2, air intake time at air station 2-3 minutes, speed 130 kmph, noise quieter than petrol car, accident result air leakage in safe direction no explosion, range 150k or so, model types include sedans and vans.

    First releases due next month I gather. These guys appear to have big plans for Mexico and France and Europe etc..
     
    from www.theaircar.com/

            Moteur Developpment International

             Home Models How it works About MDI Investors Licences Media Environment FAQ Contacts

         

            Welcome to the future!

                It looks as if MDI's compressed-air engine will be one of the major discoveries of the new century. The inventor, Guy Nčgre, has developed an engine capable of propelling a car up to 110 Km/h, that can cover a distance of 300 km with one tank refill and a cost of less than a cent per kilometre. Not only providing "Zero pollution" but also purifying the air.
                Automobiles are one commodity we cannot give up: it forms part of our living standard, but the pollution of our cities affects our quality of life. According to "El Periódico", (9/1/2000): "The pollution produced by traffic causes thousands of deaths in Europe", as well as the problems resulting from the pollution caused by the internal combustion engine.
         

    see also http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/16696.php

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    There is also the flywheel car (in theory) flywheels the size of garbage bins are now commerically available.

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    And of course (shades of Alastair Reynolds) the hyperdiamond wind-up car with nanotech spring (also independently suggested by Dak).

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