I guess stopping is not an option since you ran stop signs and lights. Seems dangerous if stopping is not part of the operational function. Very cool otherwise. Was that tanks off an Emglo. The belt/chain looked like it was wanting to fly off. More R&D and you might have something.
I don't know how practical it is but it is cool. I built a steam powered go cart/car/? a few years ago and actually used it a few times to go back and forth to town (5 miles each way). As long as you aren't in a hurry steam/air power is a decent alternative. How far can you go on those tanks?
@TGLymantaiste You need to ride in a proper steam car or even just check out Jay Lenos Garage. Real steam cars are quite capable of running with freeway traffic. Air cars? Nope, pathetic, low powered short range pieces of crap.
How about putting up you steam buggy on Utube? That would be really great. I love practically anything steam.
@fizzguts I have always loved the simplicity/fuss involved with steam vehicles. All I have left of my cart is the steam engine. I will try to get some video of it up but after watching all of these videos I am tempted to try and make another less thrown together one. with a condenser to reclaim some of the used water. I used a monotube boiler which didn't like big changes in speed but it in my estimation was the safest alternative.
@TGLymantaiste Yep that 1906 Vanderbilt replica is the business. Mind you a well maintained White is something to marvel at. If you type in search for Doble in youtube you will find a clip of 2 in convoy in Australia. Absolutely magnificent both with huge monotubes producing a bucket load of steam.
Good luck with your project I'd love to see a clip
"simplicity/fuss" Definite LOL moment when I read that
Our throttle was inefficient & didnt allow proper regulation of air vol. We calculated our range would have doubled if proper air flow volumes were maintained & more gears were used. Top speeds ranged from 18-21 mph, maximum distance on 80% filled tanks was 4-5 miles. This design was a continuation of the work done by Jem Stansfield, host of Planet Mechanics on Discovery in the UK. The project demonstrated several key mech. concepts and proved to be a fun and effective senior design project!
@kevintm1cw4 Once you have reached steady speed gears don't matter. A lighter weight vehicle at steady speed on a flat surface has very little difference in range as the extra weight only effects rolling resistance by a small percentage.
"fun and effective senior design project" yep nothing like recreating stuff from the 1900's for that extra buzz. Goggle Museum of Retrotech Our Great grand parents have been there, done that and got better tee shirts.
@fizzguts wtf is your problem? just because you're not smart enough to come up with innovations like this on your own doesn't mean you gotta hate on the people who are doing it. what have you done lately?
@nickgonezapolis Finishing off a steam powered buggy, working 6 days a week trying to get some science into an organization that desperately needs it, building my own foundry, doing CNC work, pointing out to nitwits that what they have done as an over hyped "senior project" is 1900's old tech, with no future due to some basic physics a high school student could explain and has been given gee whiz coverage MANY times before ie Pop Sci in the 1970's
@fizzguts Hello again. Imagine that; I find another comment from you on another video dealing with the same subject. What could that mean that you are here you on You Tube surfing DIY air powered vehicle videos trying to discourage us nitwits from aspiring to break our dependency on Big Oil? I would research spit powered fairy wings if I thought they could break my addiction to petro!
@MrAnthonyRizzo "I would research spit powered fairy wings if I thought they could break my addiction to petro!" Proving you are an anti scientific nimrod
@fizzguts Perhaps what you lack is intellectual curiosity. You portray yourself as a scientific type maybe even a purist but people like you traditionally have produced nothing! In fact they have been the bane of real inventors, scientist, philosophers, and dreamers, the ones who are the real backbone of all advancement in civilization. You sir are an unimaginative curmudgeon! Why do you surf You Tube videos of things you frown upon? Isn’t that akin to banging your head against a wall?
@MrAnthonyRizzo Inventors, philosophers & dreamers produce worthless trinkets to amuse the great unwashed. Scientists and engineers who study and understand the world produce the progress that has driven society. That has always been the way. I despise these so called engineers promoting a worthless cobbled together toy as something that has potential. If you want to make a toy fine just don't pretend there is any use in it or it is advancing engineering.
@fizzguts So according to you, in no particular order, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Da Vinci, Newton, Hippocrates, Ford, Wright, Tesla, Robert Kearns, G.W. Carver, Shakespeare, Edison, Franklin… Those names mean nothing to you? Never mind. I think I’d have a more productive conversation with the, afore mentioned spit powered fairy wings. Have a nice life trolling air powered engine videos.
@fizzguts also, have you seen the air powered bike by Jem Stansfield? it has a 7 mile range and 18 mph top speed. thats alot better than your estimated 2 mile range.
This design actually used carbon fiber tanks as opposed to scuba which decreased our weight totals by nearly 60 lbs. The motor used was a custom handmade Dynatork 3 which provided us with high initial torque. Due to time/monetary constraints in the academic year, we were only able to fit the bike with a single gear, limiting our ability to maximize more optimal ratios at various stages of acceleration.
@fizzguts I have seen all your negative comments on similar projects and am very pleased to have been able to build something worthy of your ridicule. You are correct that this is not a feasible means of energy storage, and my design team was well aware of this. It was strictly meant for educational purposes as @techreviewersUSA mentioned.
@kevintm1cw4 So as part of your "educational purposes" you know the swept volume of the engine determined the distance covered per revolution determined the expanded volume of the air in the tank which then gave you (assuming the exhaust was at and optimistic 14.7psi atmospheric) the maximum possible range. Opps how sad.
You cleverer than the air propulsion pioneers in the 1900's who used 3 stage engines with reheat variable valve cut off and still had miserable range? Physics?
@kevintm1cw4 how about harnessing centrifugal force instead of directly pumping air to the tank, pumping air by means of vibration instead of rotation? would that be possible?
@ddemko100 It's an off the shelf Tonson air motor. With the 2 air tanks you will get about a 2 mile range if you are lucky. Buy an electric bike MUCH better range and efficency.
The majority of the energy lost in power production is due to fuel conversion, I realise that sounds very obvious to some. A finite fuel source will never be a solution to future power production issue's, again obvious I know but not to all it seems. Many patents have been bought to be suppressed, many inventors have "disappeared", that's a lot of time, trouble & cash spent even by a power company to stop people finding out about something that doesn't work anyway.
@karpiel111 I personally blame the federal reserve, IMF, and the elites who're trying to bring the NWO about. Sorry for sounding like a maniac, but I felt that id had to be said.
Air power is hideously inefficient, short range, old technology dating back to the 1800's that impresses the technically ignorant who wouldn't know the ideal gas law even if it fell on them. Spending $10 to refill 2 dive tanks for a 1 mile range is just as stupid now as it was 40 years ago.
@fizzguts it's actually advanced quite well, do a little research into it. there is a car that can fill up at home in four hours and has a 200 mile range.
@truthseeker010101 No there isn't there is a claim by lying arewipes an air car can do 200 miles The only actual published test was about 5 miles exactly as the maths predicts
@truthseeker010101 well perhaps instead of just saying that "india will be happy to lead the way in technology if we can't step up" you should explain some reasoning and facts behind your statement. Air powered proof of concepts are not leading the way in technology, in fact quite the contrary, this technology is very old. Im not arguing that this isn't a neat idea but its not the future. Sure there may be a car that can travel 200 miles on compressed air... (continued on next comment)
@truthseeker010101 (continued from previous comment) but you're forgetting that four hours of running a compressor to fill that car requires either gas or electricity, which can be more efficiently used to run a gas powered or electric car. People like you are so focused on the end result that you neglect to consider the energy spent to charge/ fill up the vehicle can be more efficiently used on alternative methods of transportation. If you want to discuss this further, feel free to message me
@TechReviewersUSA I am a human being, of course I thought of the following logical step. the electricity they claim is 2.00 a fill up. So 220 km on 2.00. thats not bad for one, even if it is coal burned electricity. We have a sun powered electric plant in France. There are a lot of wind energy towers in Iowa, US. there are a lot of people that use water to for electricity. If we made Fossils Fuels illigal we would bult the neccessaty electricty plants in less then a year. why not?
@truthseeker010101 first 200 miles is more like 320 km, and there claims are barely reliable considering how near the end of the video they're talking about having it run forever via perpetual motion. Even IF their claims are accurate, Shell made a concept car that achieved 2564.8 Miles Per Gallon. Of course the 200 mile air car or shells concept are not cars people will want to buy and drive. The future of automobiles is in electric cars with onboard gas generators. Getting around 60 mpg
@truthseeker010101 (comment part 2) these are cars that are fast, get relatively amazing MPG, and can be filled at existing gas stations. And what does india have anything to do with this video or the topic?
Youre absolutely right. I once read an article about a french air car. It said that the energy desity is even below acid batteries plus the energy loss caused by producing compressed air makes its eficency even worse.
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DaveThePlanetSaver 1 day ago
I guess stopping is not an option since you ran stop signs and lights. Seems dangerous if stopping is not part of the operational function. Very cool otherwise. Was that tanks off an Emglo. The belt/chain looked like it was wanting to fly off. More R&D and you might have something.
TheTexaradoan 1 week ago
i sure wish this video didnt have music. its always way better to be able to hear what your watching not some song.
olmstead25 1 week ago
how to make it
geet2k 2 weeks ago
Have you used run and coast? providing the air moter is racheted.
josephdupont 3 weeks ago
How longer can you go with one air charge in the tank?
vivas11 3 weeks ago
dont crash dude!lol
eldouyet 1 month ago
Awesome, Guys! There should be some kind of wind/dirt protection for the chain, tho.
thatswassupone 1 month ago
Very Cool!
Have you checked out the Green Speed Race bike yet?
ufoengines 1 month ago
Invention
JosefKorea 1 month ago
Another lazy incention.
JosefKorea 1 month ago
I don't know how practical it is but it is cool. I built a steam powered go cart/car/? a few years ago and actually used it a few times to go back and forth to town (5 miles each way). As long as you aren't in a hurry steam/air power is a decent alternative. How far can you go on those tanks?
TGLymantaiste 1 month ago
@TGLymantaiste You need to ride in a proper steam car or even just check out Jay Lenos Garage. Real steam cars are quite capable of running with freeway traffic. Air cars? Nope, pathetic, low powered short range pieces of crap.
How about putting up you steam buggy on Utube? That would be really great. I love practically anything steam.
fizzguts 1 month ago
@fizzguts I have always loved the simplicity/fuss involved with steam vehicles. All I have left of my cart is the steam engine. I will try to get some video of it up but after watching all of these videos I am tempted to try and make another less thrown together one. with a condenser to reclaim some of the used water. I used a monotube boiler which didn't like big changes in speed but it in my estimation was the safest alternative.
TGLymantaiste 1 month ago
@fizzguts I did a search of jay lenos stuff. I like the stanley.
TGLymantaiste 1 month ago
@TGLymantaiste Yep that 1906 Vanderbilt replica is the business. Mind you a well maintained White is something to marvel at. If you type in search for Doble in youtube you will find a clip of 2 in convoy in Australia. Absolutely magnificent both with huge monotubes producing a bucket load of steam.
Good luck with your project I'd love to see a clip
"simplicity/fuss" Definite LOL moment when I read that
fizzguts 1 month ago
The trick is to accelerate and then coast...
josephdupont 1 month ago
What does the STOP sign mean for american drivers? Don't care-go ahead??
0nem1leh1gh 2 months ago
Our throttle was inefficient & didnt allow proper regulation of air vol. We calculated our range would have doubled if proper air flow volumes were maintained & more gears were used. Top speeds ranged from 18-21 mph, maximum distance on 80% filled tanks was 4-5 miles. This design was a continuation of the work done by Jem Stansfield, host of Planet Mechanics on Discovery in the UK. The project demonstrated several key mech. concepts and proved to be a fun and effective senior design project!
kevintm1cw4 2 months ago
@kevintm1cw4 Once you have reached steady speed gears don't matter. A lighter weight vehicle at steady speed on a flat surface has very little difference in range as the extra weight only effects rolling resistance by a small percentage.
"fun and effective senior design project" yep nothing like recreating stuff from the 1900's for that extra buzz. Goggle Museum of Retrotech Our Great grand parents have been there, done that and got better tee shirts.
fizzguts 2 months ago
@fizzguts wtf is your problem? just because you're not smart enough to come up with innovations like this on your own doesn't mean you gotta hate on the people who are doing it. what have you done lately?
nickgonezapolis 2 months ago
@nickgonezapolis Finishing off a steam powered buggy, working 6 days a week trying to get some science into an organization that desperately needs it, building my own foundry, doing CNC work, pointing out to nitwits that what they have done as an over hyped "senior project" is 1900's old tech, with no future due to some basic physics a high school student could explain and has been given gee whiz coverage MANY times before ie Pop Sci in the 1970's
fizzguts 2 months ago
@fizzguts Hello again. Imagine that; I find another comment from you on another video dealing with the same subject. What could that mean that you are here you on You Tube surfing DIY air powered vehicle videos trying to discourage us nitwits from aspiring to break our dependency on Big Oil? I would research spit powered fairy wings if I thought they could break my addiction to petro!
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 month ago in playlist ChainDrive
@MrAnthonyRizzo "I would research spit powered fairy wings if I thought they could break my addiction to petro!" Proving you are an anti scientific nimrod
fizzguts 1 month ago
@fizzguts Perhaps what you lack is intellectual curiosity. You portray yourself as a scientific type maybe even a purist but people like you traditionally have produced nothing! In fact they have been the bane of real inventors, scientist, philosophers, and dreamers, the ones who are the real backbone of all advancement in civilization. You sir are an unimaginative curmudgeon! Why do you surf You Tube videos of things you frown upon? Isn’t that akin to banging your head against a wall?
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 month ago
@MrAnthonyRizzo Inventors, philosophers & dreamers produce worthless trinkets to amuse the great unwashed. Scientists and engineers who study and understand the world produce the progress that has driven society. That has always been the way. I despise these so called engineers promoting a worthless cobbled together toy as something that has potential. If you want to make a toy fine just don't pretend there is any use in it or it is advancing engineering.
fizzguts 1 month ago
@fizzguts So according to you, in no particular order, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Da Vinci, Newton, Hippocrates, Ford, Wright, Tesla, Robert Kearns, G.W. Carver, Shakespeare, Edison, Franklin… Those names mean nothing to you? Never mind. I think I’d have a more productive conversation with the, afore mentioned spit powered fairy wings. Have a nice life trolling air powered engine videos.
MrAnthonyRizzo 1 month ago
@fizzguts also, have you seen the air powered bike by Jem Stansfield? it has a 7 mile range and 18 mph top speed. thats alot better than your estimated 2 mile range.
nickgonezapolis 2 months ago
This design actually used carbon fiber tanks as opposed to scuba which decreased our weight totals by nearly 60 lbs. The motor used was a custom handmade Dynatork 3 which provided us with high initial torque. Due to time/monetary constraints in the academic year, we were only able to fit the bike with a single gear, limiting our ability to maximize more optimal ratios at various stages of acceleration.
kevintm1cw4 2 months ago
@fizzguts I have seen all your negative comments on similar projects and am very pleased to have been able to build something worthy of your ridicule. You are correct that this is not a feasible means of energy storage, and my design team was well aware of this. It was strictly meant for educational purposes as @techreviewersUSA mentioned.
kevintm1cw4 2 months ago
@kevintm1cw4 So as part of your "educational purposes" you know the swept volume of the engine determined the distance covered per revolution determined the expanded volume of the air in the tank which then gave you (assuming the exhaust was at and optimistic 14.7psi atmospheric) the maximum possible range. Opps how sad.
You cleverer than the air propulsion pioneers in the 1900's who used 3 stage engines with reheat variable valve cut off and still had miserable range? Physics?
fizzguts 2 months ago
Que motor você usou?
leandroalves123 2 months ago
how about adding a pedal powered pump to refill the two air tanks,..
KONGNO2000 3 months ago 2
@KONGNO2000 kinda defeats the purpose of the bike doesn't it?
bennyd101 2 months ago 3
@bennyd101 i mean the resistance of the pedaling will remain constant weather you are climbing up the hill or cruising downhill...
KONGNO2000 2 months ago
@bennyd101 well look at a toyota prius it has a GAS engine to RECHARGE it BATTERIES
dog33100 2 months ago
@KONGNO2000 we explored this idea briefly, but a single rider couldn't produce enough force to compress enough air to the pressure required
kevintm1cw4 2 months ago
@kevintm1cw4 how about harnessing centrifugal force instead of directly pumping air to the tank, pumping air by means of vibration instead of rotation? would that be possible?
KONGNO2000 2 months ago
whats with the clown pants?
FreedomFromAlll 3 months ago 11
@FreedomFromAlll The pants I'm wearing were part of an Uncle Sam costume. We ran these trials the day after Bin Laden was announced dead
kevintm1cw4 2 months ago
3 moving violatons in 1;30 secs, overall nice bike!
EBIKERIDER2 3 months ago
How far can it go with those 2 air tanks? How much would you sell it for when you start mass production?
theevilteacher 3 months ago
great can you tel me the range ???
coycoy75basualdo 3 months ago
Can I have the plans for the engine
ddemko100 3 months ago
@ddemko100 It's an off the shelf Tonson air motor. With the 2 air tanks you will get about a 2 mile range if you are lucky. Buy an electric bike MUCH better range and efficency.
fizzguts 3 months ago
Response to recent comments.
The majority of the energy lost in power production is due to fuel conversion, I realise that sounds very obvious to some. A finite fuel source will never be a solution to future power production issue's, again obvious I know but not to all it seems. Many patents have been bought to be suppressed, many inventors have "disappeared", that's a lot of time, trouble & cash spent even by a power company to stop people finding out about something that doesn't work anyway.
karpiel111 4 months ago
@karpiel111 I personally blame the federal reserve, IMF, and the elites who're trying to bring the NWO about. Sorry for sounding like a maniac, but I felt that id had to be said.
ApollosInsight 3 months ago
Лентяи, блеать
584908 4 months ago
hello....i am from mexico and i want to know how many miles you can run with this prototype, and how you control the speed? thanks
malejsanmo 4 months ago
how u plz send me a page plz i wnat one D: plzzz
TheWolf177 5 months ago
song name
nekdonoben 5 months ago
The gulf of mexico filling up with oil should have been the last straw, what will it take?
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
Air power is the future, India will be happy to lead the way in technology if we can't step up, America is going to fall behind.
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101
Air power is hideously inefficient, short range, old technology dating back to the 1800's that impresses the technically ignorant who wouldn't know the ideal gas law even if it fell on them. Spending $10 to refill 2 dive tanks for a 1 mile range is just as stupid now as it was 40 years ago.
fizzguts 6 months ago
@fizzguts it's actually advanced quite well, do a little research into it. there is a car that can fill up at home in four hours and has a 200 mile range.
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 No there isn't there is a claim by lying arewipes an air car can do 200 miles The only actual published test was about 5 miles exactly as the maths predicts
fizzguts 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 this is more an engineering project/ proof of concept than a feasible alternative to gas. you dont know what youre talking about
TechReviewersUSA 6 months ago
@TechReviewersUSA Actually I do know what I am talking about, american insults mean nothing though, you people are like children. Grow up.
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 well perhaps instead of just saying that "india will be happy to lead the way in technology if we can't step up" you should explain some reasoning and facts behind your statement. Air powered proof of concepts are not leading the way in technology, in fact quite the contrary, this technology is very old. Im not arguing that this isn't a neat idea but its not the future. Sure there may be a car that can travel 200 miles on compressed air... (continued on next comment)
TechReviewersUSA 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 (continued from previous comment) but you're forgetting that four hours of running a compressor to fill that car requires either gas or electricity, which can be more efficiently used to run a gas powered or electric car. People like you are so focused on the end result that you neglect to consider the energy spent to charge/ fill up the vehicle can be more efficiently used on alternative methods of transportation. If you want to discuss this further, feel free to message me
TechReviewersUSA 6 months ago
@TechReviewersUSA I am a human being, of course I thought of the following logical step. the electricity they claim is 2.00 a fill up. So 220 km on 2.00. thats not bad for one, even if it is coal burned electricity. We have a sun powered electric plant in France. There are a lot of wind energy towers in Iowa, US. there are a lot of people that use water to for electricity. If we made Fossils Fuels illigal we would bult the neccessaty electricty plants in less then a year. why not?
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 first 200 miles is more like 320 km, and there claims are barely reliable considering how near the end of the video they're talking about having it run forever via perpetual motion. Even IF their claims are accurate, Shell made a concept car that achieved 2564.8 Miles Per Gallon. Of course the 200 mile air car or shells concept are not cars people will want to buy and drive. The future of automobiles is in electric cars with onboard gas generators. Getting around 60 mpg
TechReviewersUSA 6 months ago
@truthseeker010101 (comment part 2) these are cars that are fast, get relatively amazing MPG, and can be filled at existing gas stations. And what does india have anything to do with this video or the topic?
TechReviewersUSA 6 months ago
@TechReviewersUSA
Youre absolutely right. I once read an article about a french air car. It said that the energy desity is even below acid batteries plus the energy loss caused by producing compressed air makes its eficency even worse.
Muhlineks 3 months ago
what is the range?
httpzip 6 months ago
air power is the future
hunzedog 6 months ago
@hunzedog Then it's a pretty miserable furture
fizzguts 6 months ago
@fizzguts GO away you EXXON DOG! Go suck a gas pump!
truthseeker010101 6 months ago
is that a gast air motor
kandlestik 7 months ago