Ozone depletion, global warming problem ? OMG, a man invents an 'aircar'
We cannot ignore the current environmental problems.
This man has just made a brilliant innovation, like Diesel approximately a century ago. I wonder why the great oil groups did not kill him yet.
Originally posted by Yoepus
because they are overpriced golf carts. duh.
lol, you might be up to something!
but it can still make 110km/h, so really for the city person it would be good!
Apr-06-2005 22:13
d-miurge
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Originally posted by St_Andrew
lol, you might be up to something!
but it can still make 110km/h, so really for the city person it would be good!
+1
and because the technology will progress in a few months, and I can say (I had a talk with Guy Negre, the inventor) that we will have 'normal' aircar in the future. With a bigger mileage.
Apr-07-2005 19:41
Dervish
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with zero pollution
I call bull shit.....
yes even for the compressed air running, to get the compressed air you need electricity in the generation of which pollution is caused. This is the same problem I have with electric cars.
The ones which use the braking force to recharge the batteries are good and make them more efficent but you still need the inital electricity hence not pollution free.
Even if the (note additional) electricity was got from say wind farms, you still need to make the wind turbines and so on, thus causing pollution, and transport all the various parts for the turbines (large items such as blades) causing more pollution.
The actual presence of the wind turbines and blades causes changes in the enviroment also (pollution) affecting birds (whole flocks wiped out by the blades), the weather, water run off, causing noise, and low freqency light flicker (shown to fuck with your head).
Obviously it is possible that CO2 emmissions through this whole process (known as life cycle in engineering) is lower but it is highly depenedant on the operational life and full chain efficiencies of the devices envolved.
Maybe in the future when we can make electricity without pollution it'll operate with:
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with zero pollution
just not yet...
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Apr-07-2005 20:13
Shakka
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John Galt will destroy the engine and vanish from the face of the Earth before sharing it with a bunch of second hand looters. Oh wait, nevermind, I'm getting it mixed up with Atlas.
Apr-07-2005 20:13
Jackson
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I have heard there is a mini-hydroelectric engine that has been developed that only uses water and some electricity but the big oil companies are paying the guy lots of money to keep it under wraps for a few years.....i think i'll check Snopes to see if its true.
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Apr-08-2005 18:16
Dervish
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You mean one that uses electrolosis? Using electricity to separate the hydrogen and oxygen then burns them (product = water)? It works but it's not especially efficent they were thinking of using it to store power from wind farms too.
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