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To: Red Badger

Another “green” example of displaced benefits. While the bike itself may not pollute, the energy expended somewhere else to compress the air will pollute (unless it’s hydroelectric or nuclear). Is the net efficiency of using air to power this bike greater than the bike burning fossil fuel directly, instead of at the power plant? Doubtful.


15 posted on 11/06/2012 1:39:41 PM PST by mikeus_maximus
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To: mikeus_maximus

couldn’t the energy produced by spinning wheels be harnessed somehow to compress air real-time onboard?


42 posted on 11/06/2012 1:53:16 PM PST by blueplum
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