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Originally Posted by Samw
Hi Steve. Any particular reason why you don't think it will work?
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if you really look at it the energy extracted from compressed air is very small in a expansion type engine. if you look at the old steam expansion engines they had an efficiency of about 37% and air is much less than that if I had to guess off the top my head I would guess 15%ish also the volume of compressed air required to travel 50 miles would be to large and would kill the car with the weight of the storage container.
to me it looks like some tinkerers were looking for a way to get a grant or funding so they had to throw out something that looked like it had merit to money backers
Steve
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