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The car that runs on AIR: Peugot reveals plans for hybrid set to hit the streets next year
Daily Mail ^ | February 26, 2014 | Mark Prigg

Posted on 02/26/2014 1:07:24 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian

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To: Cboldt

Or the end of Jaws.


81 posted on 02/26/2014 2:50:24 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Norm Lenhart

I know someone who built a lead-acid truck that can go 80 MPH, climb hills no problem, and has a range of 100+ miles, all using low-tech components (no regenerative, etc). It would be even better if he could swing the cost of an induction motor and controller. The benefits, he stated, were that the batteries are housed in the bed of the truck which is designed to carry weight, it’s completely separate from the cab and enclosed in case of accident, and we’ve been recycling lead-acid batteries for 100 years with virtually no waste of the working materials (copper, lead). Lead’s health effects are well-known and techniques to work with it safely have been in place for decades. This is much in the vein of your post - that the total cost is more important than the “feel good” aspects of this. And, lead-acid batteries, until the regulations and artificial shortages of lead hit, are inherently cheap to build and buy.


82 posted on 02/26/2014 2:50:27 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“A compressor can capture short bursts of energy much faster than a battery can. electric hybrid (such as a Prius), because batteries can’t store small bursts of energy as quickly as a compressor. “

You keep hearing about ultracapacitors to store electricity, but there are issues when they can discharge as quickly as they charge (Wow! Zap! Ka-boom!).


83 posted on 02/26/2014 2:53:37 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Once again they lie, the car does not run on air, it runs on petroleum products.


84 posted on 02/26/2014 2:57:58 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
The pressures required to power a vehicle are astronomical compared to the pressures of propane in a tank. You're not using the air as a fuel. You're using the elasticity of the pressurized gas to store energy.

I take it you've never seen a wall taken out by a cylinder of compressed gas when the regulator gets knocked off?

85 posted on 02/26/2014 3:02:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

More so than the CNG and propane tanks used on many vehicles? Here’s a hint: air is not flammable.


86 posted on 02/26/2014 3:03:13 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: Constitution Day; martin_fierro
I want a car that runs on Muslim outrage. But not a French one.

"Pierre! I told you not to ignore the "Check Muslim" light!"

87 posted on 02/26/2014 3:06:06 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

And a residential Air compressor with fairly slow recovery draws almost 20 amps at 120 volts when it is pushing 120 psi. If I remember right then these cars run on several thousand PSI.

So once again these are simply coal fired cars.


88 posted on 02/26/2014 3:08:44 PM PST by Revel
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To: The Antiyuppie

I actually like this approach to the electric car far better than GM/Toyotas. Makes far more sense...but as cool as your fiends car is as a project (and it definitely is cool!) it still suffers the same issues of lost energy in the conversion of electricity. Not as much as the big boys experiment in futility, granted. But Thermodynamics will not be denied, much as we wish it could be.


89 posted on 02/26/2014 3:09:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim
Based on a Peugeot 208

I think I'd rather be caught on a Segway.

90 posted on 02/26/2014 3:12:20 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: loungitude

India has been doing it for a while with no apparently problems.


91 posted on 02/26/2014 3:21:41 PM PST by Hootowl
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
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92 posted on 02/26/2014 3:27:44 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day
I want a truck that runs on Libtard tears.

So environmentally safe. So ... delicious.

93 posted on 02/26/2014 3:42:04 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

94 posted on 02/26/2014 3:43:54 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Revel

I wonder if this car is using a “Scuderi” engine.


95 posted on 02/26/2014 3:45:14 PM PST by Ed Condon (Give 'em a heading, an altitude, and a reason.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Currently, many buses operate on CNG at pressures of 200+ bar. Is a tank of natural gas compressed to 3,000 PSI any less dangerous than a tank of air compressed to 4,000 PSI? If either tank fails and you are in its path, you quickly meet your maker! If you are not so close, you burn to death with the one but not the other. CNG is arguably MORE dangerous because of the explosive potential stored as chemical energy, in addition to the potential energy stored as pressure. Perhaps you wish to remove CNG as a fuel source also because of the risk of explosion?

Compressed air propulsion is not new science! In 1879, the first mechanically powered submarine, the French Navy's Plongeur was powered by compressed air! Torpedoes were first powered by compressed air. Can a purely compressed air car work? Not very well and not very long, but such a system mated with an I/C engine sounds much better (and cheaper) than an electric hybrid.

A Lund University (Sweden) professor estimates that a compressed air hybrid system could save 60% of fuel consumption of city buses. There is logic in his comment. With stop and go driving, a bus uses energy when both accelerating and decelerating. If some of that energy used to decelerate could be captured to use in accelerating, the net result would be improved fuel efficiency, lower fuel costs and less pollution (and no, I do not believe that CO2 is pollution).

As I consider myself an average consumer, if Peugeot can produce a car that is of good quality and can reduce my costs, I would be interested in it. I will not write it off merely because I don't think they can do it. What I do know is, many cities suffer from pollution, especially vehicle exhaust emissions.

Below, is a picture of Calgary when there is a temperature inversion. Since there is no heavy industry, this ugly brown cloud is mostly caused by vehicle emissions. (Again, CO2 is not a pollutant, but there is lots of 'crap' in exhaust emissions.) I can only imagine what LA is like!

96 posted on 02/26/2014 4:45:51 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
A bus has a lot more mass around it than a passenger vehicle.

So are you going to compress the air with coal or gasoline or what?

It takes energy to compress the gas. You are merely replacing emissions at the exhaust pipe with emissions at the smokestack.

97 posted on 02/26/2014 4:59:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: Norm Lenhart
But Thermodynamics will not be denied, ...

Yeah..

We haven't been able to build a decent perpetual motion engine since that Second Law was passed...

;-)

98 posted on 02/26/2014 5:31:52 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Trying it here in the good ol USA.

http://www.wavetechengines.com/

I don’t expect to see them any time soon. I don’t have the calculations right now BUT...I would have to figure out the efficiency of an efficient diesel engine running straight to a drive train verses running a compressor to a tank, then to an air motor.

Compressed air does not store much potential. The volume to make it practical is going to be huge.

I like being proven wrong in engineering.


99 posted on 02/26/2014 6:06:54 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I believe that your argument is flawed,. Tthe amount of emissions per unit of energy produced, is much lower with one coal-fired plant than with the equivalent number of cars. I cannot speak to your State, but I can talk to the facts of my Province, where I worked for a power company for a number of years, for a short while as a power engineer, later as an accountant.

There are approximately 2 million vehicles in Alberta. The province has approximately 55 plants where coal, NG, biogas or biomass is burned for thermal generation of electricity. There are approximately 150 units within these plants. Of these, approximately 35 are not NG, ie: coal, biogas, biomass. As of November 2013, 5.69GW of the 14GW installed generation is coal with 38.3GWh of 72.9GWh generated in 2012 being coal generation. (Link) Only 2GW of the 14GW installed is hydro or wind. Hydo is used for 'peaking', when prices top out, as we do not have a 7 year supply of 'fuel' behind our dams, as BC does.

Why is it, that the two newest units, Genesee 3 and Keephills 3 combined, produce over 900 MW? It is called 'economies of scale'. Economies of scale also applies to pollution control. Per unit of energy produced, the pollution is less in a new coal-fired generating plant versus the tailpipe of a car because of the use of electrostatic precipitators, bag-houses, cyclonic separators, wet scrubbers, flue gas desulphurisation, etc. in the plant. Are you willing to pay an extra $10,000-$15,000 per vehicle to get emissions to the level of a coal plant? (At least the emission levels of new plants in Alberta.) Stack emissions are monitored in real time and are linked to the regulators, so there can be no funny business, when it comes to emissions. Excursions beyond allowable limits result in investigations and fines. How much easier is it to monitor and control the emissions emanating from 55 thermal plants, versus 2 million vehicles? Would you prefer the ‘black box’ in your car to report to the EPA each time that yu needed to tune it up?

BTW, can you explain how a full CNG tank at 3,000 PSI is less dangerous than a compressed air tank at 4,000 PSI? You did not explain this when you replied. I would like to understand this.

100 posted on 02/26/2014 7:13:52 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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