PAT BOONE (Yes, THAT PAT BOONE ) PITCHES ECO-FRIENDLY CAR ON SHARK TANK WITH PARTNER ETHAN TUCKER
Posted on 05/08/2015 8:05:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most all the sharks saw the vision but many were discouraged by the fact Boone and Tucker only had a license to sell in Hawaii.
And that’s why Herjavec’s deal is contingent upon the company securing the entire U.S. rights. Hawaii makes sense as a place to start; the pollution is high and the dependance on gasoline being shipped to the islands is great. And while AIRPod could be a big hit there, to get it running, Herjavec will require Boone and Tucker to move swifter than they perhaps intended. In this industry, though, if you don’t swim fast, the sharks will almost certainly catch you.
And how is all that air gonna get itself compressed? Hand pumps?
That thing's got death-trap written all over it.
Ya think?
Since we now have had air scrubber cars for over a decade, It makes little sense to try rewriting thermodynamic law to invent new methods of propulsion in the name of ‘pollution’. But I guess it gets green investor ‘green’. and capitalistic profit for socialists.
Seating for 3?
Range?
I won’t ask the speed or towing capacity.
At the very least it has double amputee written all over it, I wonder if they also own shares in prosthetic manufacturers.
So, how is the power to run the high pressure air compressor generated in Hawaii? If primarily nuclear, these cars would really be “zero emission”, but methinks that most power there is either coal or oil based, and the losses in transmission and conversion will make this no less than an equivalent pollution source.
Mythbusters tried to do this with a boat this will fail as well
Yup. There was a reason cabover designs went the way of the Dodo. Even vans today have some nose to them. The old Ford/Dodge/VW pick-up/vans looked cool in a retro way though.
Simple...spontaneous compression, a little researched phenomena that convinces those O2 and N2 molecules to race into the tank all by themselves and self-assemble into a highly compressed mass.
I not so clear on the heating of the air going into the engine, however.
Compressed air cars really suck at high temperature. You waste too much energy compressing the air. Better they shouldmtry Alaska.
I’ve been riding Motorcycles for 38 years....and I would never drive something like that....way too dangerous.
Air compressed to 300 times atmospheric pressure - that’s over 4400 psi. Interestingly the same pressure advertised for paintball gun canisters, so probably looking at similar equipment to compress the air. Wouldn’t want to be near one when some part of the system fails.
Compressing air is highly inefficient. When a gas is compressed heat is created, heat=energy, waste heat must be removed, heated air carries more moisture, moisture removal requires more energy. My prediction, fail.
Not really because there is still nuclear waste and the associated nuke plant emissions to consider.
Of course!!! Wasn’t that developed from the rotating bird killer tech? Wait I meant the sub-nuclear bird fryers.
Maybe the dead birds from other environ-mental-ly responsible power generation schemes are loaded into a vat and the outgassing of the decomposition process is the way of the future...and stuff! ;)
Take that trip to the store and supply your own your own coffin. How great is that?
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