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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 10:28 AM
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Compressed air car... video...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/compressed-air-cars-video/
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SergeyDovlatov Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 10:36 AM
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1. It is absolutely not zero emission car ...
Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 10:37 AM by SergeyDovlatov
It emits exactly as much as environmental cost of compressing the air.
Since 70% of US electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels and releasing CO2 and giving inefficiencies in energy conversion, one can argue that it emits the same amount or even more CO2 than regular gasoline powered car.

Source of electricity generation data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 10:38 AM
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2. thanx
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 10:41 AM
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4. but US electricity can be powered by solar and wind. It just takes doing it.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 10:40 AM
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3. very cool. I'm still waiting for my electric plug in. as soon as they are available and affordable.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-07-08 12:25 PM
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5. They are selling perpetual motion? Sure sounds like it.
3 tanks @ 3000 PSI each takes a bit of energy to fill and a special compressor to do it. It doubtful that a compressor that would fit in that car could recharge the tanks in a reasonable amount of time.
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