From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 19:21:10 MST
Avatar writes
> [Does the following have] battery pollution problems?
> (Although hydrogen cars should not have these).
I don't know. Good question. Perhaps someone knows.
> 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..
Yes, but, as the quote (below) you give claims, this
would mean a driving cost at less than two cents per
mile (which is more than one cent per kilometer).
There has to be something wrong with this. It's
definitely in the "too good to be true" category.
Could it be that the present manufacture of all
that oxygen is partly financed by a side-effect
from some other industry?
> "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.
Well, I certainly hope it's true, but I wish I could
take out insurance by buying futures in the idea being
invalid or inapplicable some way.
Lee
> see also http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/16696.php
> There is also the flywheel car (in theory) flywheels
> the size of garbage bins are now commercially available.
> And of course (shades of Alastair Reynolds) the
> hyperdiamond wind-up car with nanotech spring
> (also independently suggested by Dak).
> Avatar...
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