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An early design for the automobile ran on compressed (liquid!) air. http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm It might work for some a
by corey_moncure 8y ago
An early design for the automobile ran on compressed (liquid!) air.
http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm
It might work for some applications, but in 120 years we haven't been able to make it work for cars, at least.
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago> ... but in 120 years we haven't been able to make it work for cars... Ok, but has anyone worked on the problem in the past 120 years?
- brohee 8y agohttps://www.mdi.lu https://www.mdi.lu tried to make compressed air two person urban cars (Air Pod) but with the main inventor and visionary now dead I don't know if there is much momentum left...
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI suggest anyone interested in the history of compressed air storage to also check out http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/airloco/airloco.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/airloco/airloco.... There's also a few articles on the website about compressed air cars and city-wide infrastructure
- jandrese 8y agoIIRC there are compressed air cars used in India. They aren't very good, but you get free air conditioning when they're moving and they're cheap, so they fit the market well.
- blattimwind 8y agoHas worked fine for compressed-air locomotives in e.g. mines.