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Scientists to Build a New Motorcycle Engine powered by Compressed Air

Posted by Mike in Air powered on June 23, 2010

According to the researchers, if this technology will be widely implemented, mostly in areas where motorcycles are a major source of public transportation, it could cut emissions substantially.

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Utah-Based Company Digging Underground Compressed Air Batteries

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Energy Storage on February 9, 2010

Underground caverns may have never been seen as energy containers, but a Utah-based private equity group promises to use them filled with compressed air to generate electricity the classic way – by spinning a turbine.

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The Magnetic Air Car: a Step Towards Free Energy Devices?

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Free Energy, Magnetic Power on September 30, 2008

San Jose’s West Coast Green conference from last week had a point of attraction: the world’s first fuel-less car, made by Magnetic Air Car. They even say it will be produced beginning with 2010.

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Air Powered Motors: Small as Watermelons, More Efficient than Diesel

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Video on July 16, 2008

If you watch The Green Optimistic you already know that we covered air cars in previous posts, both MDI CAT’s and the Angelo DiPietro air motor. The first time we wrote about these inventions was about 6 months ago. Now, MDI and Angelo DiPietro have contracts all over the world with auto makers to sell them the compressed air technology so automakers do what they do best: cars.

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Tata Motors is Expected to Release an Air-Powered Nano

Posted by Mike in Air powered on July 13, 2008

For those who don’t now, Nano is a car from the Indian company Tata Motors. This mini car would sell at $2500 and will have new green features that would please many eco-savvy people. As some latest news say, Tata will release an air-powered model, running a compressed air engine from MDI Enterprises.

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Air Powered Motoscooter

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered on April 15, 2008

The TV presenter Jem Stansfield modified this small moped to function on compressed air stored in two high pressure carbon fiber tanks, like the ones that the firefighters use. The engine has been replaced by two rotary air engines.

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OneCAT – the car that runs on air!

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Car industry, Hybrid vehicles on February 18, 2008

Remember an older article about a small company, called MDI, who had a plan in building a car that runs totally on air? Now they did it. OneCAT is a five-seat car, with a fiberglass body, weighting about 350kg and costing about… 4800$! And that’s cheaper than any car (maybe except the recent car from [...]

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Solar Tower – Produce Energy Using Air Turbines

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Solar Power on February 6, 2008

The Solar Tower SolarMission owns the license to breakthrough Solar Tower large-scale renewable energy technology with the potential to challenge the energy industry as it is operates today. The technology is based on the concept developed by renowned German structural engineer Professor Jörg Schlaich, founder and principal of leading structural engineers, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners. [...]

air power, solar, tower, turbine

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How To Build a Tesla Turbine From a Hard Disk Drive

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered, Tesla Inventions on February 6, 2008

Disks At first I tried using CDs because of their large surface areas, but they didn’t hold up too well under the milling machine. I also had a stack of platters from old and defective hard drives, but I didn’t know if the smaller diameter disks would work as well. One problem I ran into [...]

Air powered, hard drive, tesla, turbine

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How a Slotted Disk Turbine Engine Works

Posted by Ovidiu in Air powered on February 6, 2008

Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to offer the reader some insight into how a bladeless steam turbine can be constructed and used. The use of inexpensive slotted disc turbines in place of much more expensive bladed turbines can fill a void in the need to convert heat energy to electrical energy, and can [...]

air engine, turbine

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