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François Gissy’s Compressed Air/Water Motorcycle Accelerates in 0.5s to 62mph

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:35:27 +0000

When it comes to acceleration, most cars are allright. Teslas are OK, Formula1 cars are better but there’s one more thing beating them: an air/water rocket. François Gissy, a French DIYer climbed on top of his 6000psi-loaded jet trike and did some tests at a local running track. He got to some 260 km/h (162.5 […]

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AIRPod – Zero-Emission Compressed Air Car, On Sale This Year

Mila Luleva — Tue, 05 May 2015 19:15:38 +0000

AIRpod, the small and compact vehicle that runs entirely on cheap compressed air, hits the market by the end of 2015. The ever-so-anticipated moment when more and more people are looking into buying low, or even zero emission vehicles has finally come. It does not come as a surprise that the giants in the automotive industry […]

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Peugeot Hybrid 208 2L gets over 110 mpg

Benji Jerew — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:16:05 +0000

Given that transportation is the most widespread source of carbon dioxide emissions, albeit not the greatest source, it is encouraging to see cars breaking miles-per-gallon barriers, such as the Peugeot Hybrid 208 2L, rated at 117 mpg. The quest for 100 mpg has been long and fraught with disappointment. The problem, for the most part, […]

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First Ever Liquid Air Zero-Emission Engine to Get Tested in UK

Mila Luleva — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:26:19 +0000

It is more than a year ago since we first introduced the concept of liquid nitrogen to be used in a motor, however there were still some limitations and doubts to whether this idea will ever be realized commercially. Now, a large team of UK engineers and scientists managed to develop a real and working […]

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First Ever Full-Size Air-Powered LEGO Car Hits the Streets of Melbourne

Mila Luleva — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:02:58 +0000

All you need is 500,000 Lego bricks, and you can have a brand new air-powered full-sized car, that moves as fast as a scooter. You don’t believe it? Well, the Australian guru Steve Sammartino and the Romanian genius Raul Oaida made it possible and they even drove the super cool vehicle on the streets of Melbourne. […]

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Peugeot 208 Air Hybrid Vehicle Goes Nearly One Hundred Miles Per Gallon

Benji Jerew — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:56:18 +0000

Mention “hybrid vehicle,” and most people probably assume you mean hybrid “electric” vehicle, but in the case of the upcoming Peugeot 208 Air-Hybrid, you would be way off. After all, it does say “air.” Since the OPEC Oil Embargo, and more recent emissions regulations, automakers have been on a constant hunt for better fuel economy […]

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81 MPG Compressed Air Hybrid Unveiled by Peugeot/Citroën

Benji Jerew — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:40:24 +0000

Gasoline and diesel fuel are, by far, not the only options available in the world of automobile propulsion. Pretty much anything that stores energy can be used to propel a vehicle, whether as chemical energy in a combustible fuel, electrochemical energy stored in a battery pack, or air stored under pressure. There have been a […]

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Could Liquid Nitrogen Work in a Compressed-Air Motor?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:20:41 +0000

Automobile researchers have been looking into many alternatives to the petroleum-powered internal combustion engine [ICE], including electric, hydrogen, and even compressed air. What is an ICE, in its simplest terms, but a air pump? Compressed-air motor [CAM] vehicles, though, are light, slow, and not very practical for the average user. Liquid Nitrogen [LN2] could be […]

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Tata Motors to Launch Mini CAT Compressed Air Car in August

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:01:56 +0000

Although it will come in the standard offer without a radio, Tata Motors’ latest car, the Mini CAT, will be powered by air pressure and will come to the market in August this year, in India. I’ve been hearing about this car from time to time even since five years ago, when I started blogging […]

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Compressed Air Bike by Dean Benstead Competes With Battery-Powered

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:22:54 +0000

Compressed air bikes may be the future of biking and may even compete with battery powered ones. Dean Benstead made one for himself and shows the concept to the world. Compressed air has been one of the fields “in vogue” a few years ago (namely, four or five), ever since the invention of the DiPietro […]

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Toyota's New Compressed Air-Powered Vehicle Reaches 80.3 MPH

Mike Sandru — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:27:28 +0000

Toyota Industries has successfully developed a compressed air-powered vehicle dubbed Ku:Rin that was able to reach a top speed of 129.2km/h (80.3 mph) during a test run earlier this month. Now the company wants to apply for a Guiness World record for the fastest car powered by a compressed-air engine. Toyota began to develop such […]

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Air-Powered Motorbike Coming From Indian Students

Mike Sandru — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:47:51 +0000

The high population of India makes for the pollution to be high as well. So, if there is any place on Earth where electric vehicles are needed, then it's there. Aware of this situation, a handful of engineering students in Palwal City, Haryana state have conceived an oxygen-run motorbike, which they claim is a discovery in the field.

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Air Hybrid Cars Could Be Cheaper Than Those Based on Electricity

Mike Sandru — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:49:31 +0000

According to Swedish researchers, storing energy as compressed air rather than in batteries would reduce the price of hybrid cars. Some hybrid and electric vehicles are already using brake energy to activate a generator that charges the batteries.

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AirPod: Powered by Compressed Air, Greener than Electrics, Ready for Sale

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:47:03 +0000

Can you remember MDI Cat? They're the company who designed an engine powered completely by compressed air a few years ago. It looks like they gathered funding from a Tata Motors venture and are now developing a new and more efficient vehicle: the AirPod.

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Honda Air: The Compressed-Air Sportscar at LA Auto Show's Design Challenge

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:15:45 +0000

Honda, aside from making their cars good shapes, participates to design challenges like that from the LA Auto Show, presenting their compressed-air Honda Air.

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Scientists to Build a New Motorcycle Engine powered by Compressed Air

Mike Sandru — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:43:35 +0000

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:09:51 +0000

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?

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:28:22 +0000

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:58:55 +0000

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

Mike Sandru — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:02:32 +0000

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:45:56 +0000

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. The two tanks can be fully charged in a matter of seconds from any air compressor. […]

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OneCAT – the car that runs on air!

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:57:33 +0000

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:40:45 +0000

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 Jirg Schlaich, founder and principal of leading structural engineers, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners. Solar Towers operate […]

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DIY Tesla Turbine From a Hard Disk

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:18:28 +0000

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 […]

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How a Slotted Disk Turbine Engine Works

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:17:15 +0000

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 […]

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Quasiturbine Engine Works With Air

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:40:53 +0000

Since the Quasiturbine is a pure expansion engine (which the Wankel is not, neither most of other rotary engines), it is well suitable as compressed fluid engine – Air engine or air motor. From the basic 200cc per revolution engine bloc, a compressed air prototype has been built making use of 2 parallel expansion circuits […]

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Engineair's Ultra-Efficient Compressed Air Motor

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:34:45 +0000

Elegant minimalist design eliminates most of the working parts traditionally associated with internal combustion engine; offers nearly 100% energy efficiency for a variety of transport and stationary applications. by Mary-Sue Haliburton Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2006 Imagine a vehicle with nothing under the hood (or bonnet), no gearbox, no transmission, no carburetor or […]

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The Tesla Turbine

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:33:23 +0000

Nikola Tesla created an engine design nearly 100 years ago that is as much as three or four times more efficient than the combustion engine design that has dominated for reasons other than science.At the time of his invention around 1909, Tesla was able to demonstrate a fuel efficiency of 60% with his bladeless turbine […]

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The Rotary Air Engine (Di Pietro motor)

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:57:22 +0000

The Di Pietro motor concept is based on a rotary piston. Different from existing rotary engines, the Di Pietro motor uses a simple cylindrical rotary piston (shaft driver) which rolls, without any friction, inside the cylindrical stator. The space between stator and rotor is divided in 6 expansion chambers by pivoting dividers. These dividers follow […]

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E.Volution – the air powered car

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:53:17 +0000

Within the next two years, you could see the first air-powered vehicle motoring through your town. Most likely, it will be the e.Volution car that is being built by Zero Pollution Motors, in Brignoles, France. The cars have generated a lot of interest in recent years, and the Mexican government has already signed a deal […]

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MDI Cat’s Air Engines Unveiled

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:38:03 +0000

MDI has developed a high performance compressed air technology. When it is compared to traditional gasoline powered engines, MDI´s engine is far superior in terms of energy used and thermodynamics. An overview of the air car The technology that MDI vehicles use is not new, in fact it had been around for years. Compressed air […]

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