Air powered Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:51:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Air Powered Motors: Small as Watermelons, More Efficient than Diesel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-motors-mdi-cat-dipietro-video-20080716/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-motors-mdi-cat-dipietro-video-20080716/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:58:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=456 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-powered-tata-nano-20080713/feed/ 7 409 Air Powered Motoscooter https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-powered-motoscooter-20080415/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-powered-motoscooter-20080415/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:45:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=281 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 The engine has been replaced by two rotary air engines.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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