I love this idea... and I can't help but laugh at all the negative comments on it. It's exactly the same kind of derision that met the human race when it came to make a machine that could fly. Anything is plausible... and I will support this idea wholeheartedly.
These things run into temperature issues because of basic scientific principles of compression and expansion (Boyles Law). This presentation not only fails to mention these, but becomes stupid by proposing to recompress the fuel source while driving along. Duh.
The technology is legitimate, but this presentation and the narration is absurd. The writers ended the script by basically saying "it will generate air then use it up, so we get free energy" ....violating rudimentary scientific principles.
Air can make a great battery to store energy for transportation, but charging them with compressors that use electricity generated from fossil fuels doesn't really get us anywhere.
If it's charging off wind/solar/geothermal, there's some actual progress!
If you drive an electric car you should be thanking the coal companies. The rest of us should be thanking the oil companies and tell the gov't to quit taxing the shit out of our gas! This idea of a bomb on four wheels is the beggest crock of shit. The way I see it, free markets would benefit all you crybabies out there... How the hell did I end up here anyway???
I'm sure they have thought of this.... let's face it; they've managed to figure out how to built gasoline cars so that they don't explode every time they get in an accident
The comments here re-enforce my belief that 'innovation' is a four letter word in America. No one hates alternatives more than Americans. Most republicans and christians are so programmed, that they believe solar energy is an act of terrorism. They think we should all just behave and do what oil companies tell us to do. The only solution is to begin locking Americans in garages with running cars.
I first heard about compressed air vehicles back in 2006, makes sense. In Italy a shipping warehouse converted their forklifts to run on compressed air because their employees were getting sick from the gas/diesel fumes. At that same time a German company was also manufacturing a compressed air car. Use 3-D Solar, Wind, and/or Hydrogen to fill the tanks and you do not burn any fossil fuels. Every home an energy plant and self contained is the answer. Fantastic.
How do I know if the anti air car information is not coming from the Oil Industry? I checked RipOff Report.com and found no reports filed. Franchise or Auto Sales. However there are no updated web pages regarding the air car since 2007. Makes a person wonder.
@canadarideforclimate This long running CON has always been available to rich technically ignorant suckers who put up the $250,000 franchise price. They are now so angry with the loss of their "investment" LOL, they have formed a group to try to sue MDI. Good luck with that, why do these nitwits think MDI is incorporated in Luxemburg For the scenery? Bwahahaha
Well all i know is that i don't understand a bit about compress air, but i do know about Xtreme Fuel Treatment it not only saves on gas but you can make money from it ,check it guys i know i'm making money from selling this product and also i save money Big time on GAS.
Why would anyone chantise an inventor who is trying to make the world better? If it works or not at least he's trying. What have you ever done for the planet?
@retiredhappy2 Because this bunch of scamming arsewipres have taken over $20 million since 1996 promoting the idea of franchises for an air powered vehicle, a really old technology that was over in the 1900's
@retiredhappy2 Well as the sharks behind this have ripped off investors to the tune of millions of $ for a pathetic short range inefficient con they need to be chastised, or better still given a prison snetence
this video is so funny, I think I will get electric motor and hook it to a bigger generator that send power back to the motor and the rest over will run my house, It should work just like the statements in this video lol
take some engineering classes, "what if the car could run the generator to compress its own air"...ever hear of thermodynamics? there is no such thing as perpetual motion. And dont even get me started on safety...ever seen what happens to a compressed air tank that blows up? times that by 3 next time you get in a fender bender and get your arms and legs blown off.
@newgun2000 seriously, i can't stand when "science" is dumbed down to make false promises for uneducated people. You got people saying "where the hell are these cars, big oil companies want to steal our money"... whoever made this show should be out of a job.
@gr8vibes2 well those were prototypes. It takes a lot of testing and seeing how they will work. There have been more since then and mostly in France that have those stations. But like the US the big oil companies and Car companies are going to try and suppress these types of cars rather than let them come here. Slowly the total Electric cars are becoming more popular and Big car companies had to relent to even adding electric or making electric cars but at a huge cost to the public.
@rdtravis73 I'm skeptical. Fill a tank full of air and let it out slowly and in no time it gets empty. So the claim it can move you many hundred miles on a tank is far fetched. Think about it. The air has to move heavy pistons through cylinder walls with enough pressure to turn the crankcase to propell your heavy car forward takes a little more air and pressure than what these tanks could ever hold.
@toeblarone A 5 mile actual range, with a 6 hp engine, a 6 hour refill time using a 6kw compressor and appallingly low efficency is "the way forward" Not in this umiverse
How long do you sleep, how long do you spend at work and how long do you spend outside your car on holiday? Refilling should never be a problem if you think ahead. Also you could have a large precompressed tank for emergency purposes, it'd have to be at a slightly higher pressure and will take seconds to fill up.
If you have the air tank to take the pressure, you could continue pressurising the gas until it becomes a liquid, the molecules will decrease space by at least 1000 fold, more range.
@Zappyguy111 Read again what I wrote "5 MILE ACTUAL RANGE 6 hour recharge from a 6 kw compressor (That's big by the way). It doesn't matter how large a prefilled tank you have YOU HAVE TO FILL IT AT SOME STAGE
You can not pressurize air until it becomes liquid, to do that it HAS TO BE CHILLED to cryogenic temperatures which is even more energy lost. Liquid air STILL has a lousy energy density.
This is all basic physics and simple maths. Do a bit of research
And the prefilled tank is a stationary tank you leave at home. You keep it permanently pressurised until you need it. Just have the compressor on a low pressure trip so it refills the tank when it runs low.
It'd take a 6kw compressor 6 hours, but this thing, you just plug it in and go in 5 minutes.
It's 5am, pulled an all nighter. Math's isn't something I want to do right now. Maybe later.
Triple point? I'll leave you to examine the pressure/temperature graph. Though I admit, the 1000 fold was a very (very) broad guess and is almost certainly wrong.
@Zappyguy111 The weight of gas in a 4500psi cylinder vs the weight of liquid air in the same volume is a simple calculation use moles ie approx 30grams of air per 22.4L at S.T.P. Use P1V1=P2V2 this give you grams of air at 4500psi vs grams of liquid air in same volume. Not much difference.
The power to compress the air has to come from somewhere compression is hideously inefficient
You can not pressurize air until it becomes liquid, to do that it HAS TO BE CHILLED FACT
@toeblarone Nope simple maths and their figures agree. Don't confuse the intake volume of a compressor for the output rate. 220L at 4500 psi Do the numbers and go away.
It such baloney to say a car run on air. Americans a so gullible and science ignorant. That are in for a big wake up call some day and blame anyone but themselves. SS
@MrAlecaf So you didn't bother to do 5 minutes googling that would have shown you this is a long running CON. You just posting the fact you are a window licker on youtube. Rrright that makes sense NOT!
But, we can confirm, according to the American Academy of Sciences, that more than six thousand patents have been suppressed for so-called “security” or “public safety” reasons.
[DW: This data point is in my new book “The Source Field Investigations.” The Federation of American Scientists revealed that 5,135 inventions had been classified by the end of FY 2010.
@ikbinhans They are air tanks whether they are made of carbon fiber steel alloy if they are faulty or in a big impact they explode. There have been composite tank explosions, just as nasty as a steel tank.
MDI LIE about everything except the cost of buying a license
Yeah, when perpetual motion got introduced at the end, it really made me wonder about the rest of the piece. How far can the prototypes ACTUALLY go right now on their onboard tanks. What sort of PSI are we talking?
I'm all for practical, affordable alternatives to burning fossil fuels but I haven't seen anything practical besides nuclear and hydro-electric. Wind and solar power require obscene taxpayer subsidies currently.
its people like alot of you down there that slow everybody down. its about moving forward onto bigger better things. thinking outside of the box and creating something that has the potential of being great. so stop hating :) if everybody in the world was like @einstyndotcom we would never be where we are today in terms of technology. just sayin
@richardbongatmolina1 Physics aside, we are where we are for exactly that reason. I've completely lost faith in humanity as a whole. There are those that think only of their own greed & so many more that are simply sheep with their eyes on "The Jersey Shore" or "The Apprentice." I find it highly unlikely that we will go to space as noted in even the most conservative Science Fiction. I imagine us falling into another Dark Age long before most of humanity can reach a point of real enlightenment.
I can't believe this video ends with the suggestion that this air-car idea is essentially a perpetual motion machine. I think it would be better to develop a car that runs on water (by extracting hydrogen) and using a built-in dehumidifier to create its own water supply from the atmosphere. This would be the closest to a practical perpetual motion machine although not a real one per se.
Who says the compressed air has to come from oil? Energy sources like solar or Fuel cells can provide the energy needed to compress air. You guys still think in little boxes, for every bit of skepticism you come up with there's like 5 solutions. That's just current tech too, later on as solar efficiency increases the concept of perpetual fuel could actually happen on properly outfitted machine.
@aztecsaxwarrior So the $40,000 dollar array you need to run the honking great compressor this POC needs for it's ACTUAL 5 mile range makes sense to you? I have a bridge you might like to buy.
You of course are SO convinced photovoltaics and a wind turbine are the answer you have them on you house? Right? Hello? Silence? PV and wind only make sense it you are miles from the nearest power lines The opportunity cost kills it if you are hooked up to the grid
@Frankistop So the $40,000 dollar array you need to run the honking great compressor this POC needs for it's ACTUAL 5 mile range makes sense to you? I have a bridge you might like to buy.
I can't believe this announcer actually allowed himself to repeat that copy. If the energy to compress the air comes from oil, well then hey, we're back to square one.
LIGHT is the only future to energy limitless. It powers the universe, it's good enough for us. The only caveat is that deep sea creatures are now known to thrive without light but they are certainly not in the majority wrt life on Earth.
This is bullshit it physically cannot be self perpetuating. The notion of it being a in "perfect circle" ( compressed air running a generator to compress more air to run the engine ) is flawed logic energy will be lost within the inherent inefficiencies of energy conversion. Its like saying I can use electricity to run a generator which will then make more electricity to run the engine.
@llbb010 YOU can walk. And while you're at it take of your hi tech shoes and clothes. Cut wood with stone to make a spear to hunt for your food. Ungrateful idiot.
The actual range is 6 miles as posted eons ago by MDI and since removed from their web site. This is a long running con with no independent tests ..... if anyone can come up with ONE INDEPENDENT TEST confirming MDI's 200km lies opps! claims I'll pull my posts.
Seems clear to me, still the people who shill for MDI are complete morons
Very good idea for city cars, a few points, this is not zero emissions, you still have to burn some fuel to run a compressor and fill the air tanks in the car, also what about all the emissions to make the car in the first place, zero emissions is a false claim in this video and it cannot compress air without using some other from of energy, would be a much better video if they told us the complete truth, however I do agree it is a good idea, no question
The commentary on this video is quite possibly the dumbest I have ever heard from a show claiming to be scientific. If the compressed air engine did not but power a generator, it would have losses in energy due to limitations in efficiency. Same goes for the generator to run a compressor. If you take out the middle man, you have a compressed air engine powering a compressor, which due to frictional and heat losses, will not function without energy added. You cannot create energy from "thin air."
Additionally, all of these new "fuels" (hydrogen, air, etc) are simply forms of storing energy, and have more in common with batteries than actual fuels. It takes more electrical energy to separate hydrogen and oxygen from water than you get back from hydrogen fuel cells or from burning hydrogen, just as it takes more electrical energy to compress air than you get back. The only benefit to moving toward these technologies will be realized with natural electricity generators (solar, wind, hydro).
Lol open your eyes,the government docent give a shit if where fucking up our own world!As long the rich stay rich they dont care!If this world really wanted to make the best out of itself we could!But there are people just Blind or selfish to do anything about it.We are killing ourselves but many few people care.......1 is useless but if we all worked together for a better future dam
shure we can make this a wonderful place!And all of you that say where's Jesus where is our all mighty god and
THE UNITED STATES WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN BIG OIL HAS OUR GOVERMENT IN THERE BACK POCKET AND WE ARE CHAINED TO THE GAS PUMP,JUST THINK OF THE MONEY EVERY ONE WOULD SAVE YOU COULD PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME, CONSUMER SPENDING AT STORES WOULD BE THROUGH THE ROOF UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD NEXT NOTHING WALMART STORES WOULD SELL OUT ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHERS SOUND TO GOOD TO BE TRUE ,ONE CAN DREAM CANT THEY!!!
this video sounded awesome... until the narrator FARTED the idea of perpetual motion out of his mouth. i'm sure the engineer who designed this car was FACE-PALMIG like mad when he saw how they presented his idea.
I don't think the narrarator was using the word "perpetual motion" literally , just figuratively. Michio Kaku knows it violates the laws of thermodynamics.
A car that fuels itself while you drive!!! WOW!! That's awesome!!! ... and I have a great bridge I'd like to sell you in New York. man ... people will believe anything!!
So. You use an air generator.... to fill up compressed air.... in another air tank to drive the car more... but.... hold on.... do you need a generator to fill up the generator.. and also a generator to fill up that generator. I am sorry but that is kinda silly. You still have to someday fill up that generator so no, it isn't perpetual motion.
The idea of a car running on compressed air isn't bullshit, although it's extremely unlikely that it will ever compete with combustion or battery-based cars... And they can't go anywhere near 200 miles on one tank.
The statements about it being "free" to refuel, or that it could be a perpetual motion machine are complete bullshit and I so I hope this didn't make it on the air on any actual non-satirical TV show.
...It takes power to compress air. And once the air is released, you don't magically re-harness the power from it. Inspiring idea, but the perpetual motion thing might as well have been narrated by the goat-man from Narnia.. bullllsshiiiittt
and there is no squashing from the oil companies, does it surprise you that the same people that would believe this crap would also believe the conspiracy theory? if it were true, why would hybrid and electric cars even be coming out. Give me a brake. I know people in the oil and gas field and they have no trouble selling oil for many many end uses. There is no threat.
So you can not create a perpetual motion cycle that feeds itself over and over. There is no getting away from energy out equals energy in minus the efficiency losses. Accept it!
you can use it to turn a mechanical device to make propulsion or turn an electric generator, but if you use some of that potential energy to turn a generator which will convert that limited potential energy of compressed gas into electrical energy then use that electrical energy to turn a compressor to supply compressed air, the end result is that you have produced less energy in compressed air then it took from your original compressed air potential energy supply.
Compressing air to do work is not new. What do you think a steam engine is really doing? the same thing applies, energy in the form of heat must be added to turn water to steam that expands into air, hence compressed air, or you use energy in the form of electricity to turn a compressor to fill a pressure tank with air that can then use the air to turn a motor or simple air tool or dentist drill. once that air tank is filled it stores a defined amount of potential energy, ...continued
What do you mean except it? Accept what? Has someone invented new laws of physics? Can anyone answer the question, where does the energy come from? It takes energy to compress the air. the guy says" one day the car will have a generator that runs on compressed air to generate power to compress the air again, a car that fuels itself over and over... perpetual motion" do you all realize how ridicules this statement is!? If you believe this I will sell you land on the bottom of the ocean.
YOU PEOPLE DONT GET IT, THAT CAR IS EQUIPED WITH A HOSE JUST UNDER THE DRIVERS SEAT THAT HE PULLS OUT AND PUMPS IN AIR FROM HIS/HER LUNGS TO COMPRESS THE CYLINDERS TILL THEY'RE FULL .
dont you all get it? you cant just put altinators on board and creat energy without consuming up more air to overcome the drag on the alternators to creat the energy. wow, I am amazed at people. why dont we just put ten thousand alternators on it and power electric motors onboard too. yeah, have the air push the car and turn altenators and have that turn a compressor to feed the air supply again, dont you see the flaw in the physical logic in that theory? where is the raw energy comming from?
@einstyndotcom , it is not perpetual motion, the tanks of compressed air move the pistons. The compressed air is compressed wit other energy, either an electric compressor at a charging station, or buy a compressor mounted on the car. Check out some other videos abut this, some of them are more clear on how it will work,
@einstyndotcom It's the presenter's need to hype it up that leads him into nonsense, which sadly undermines the fine science behind the innovation. The same people who fall for this kind of flawed logic also fall for pyramid schemes.
ok, maybe not perpetual motion but how about something like 1000 or even 10000 miles on one tank. now to me that is just as exciting as perpetual motion.
@einstyndotcom Easy, if you have a compressed air bottle on board (with a slight amount of air in it), just opening the valve will start up the generator. From there it would feed itself energy. Compressed air is super-pressurised so it creates energy just by leaving the bottle.
@DavidShroomBeattie Congratulations for showing you have zero understanding of physics to the whole world. The real answer is larger tyres on the rear so you always roll down hill.
This is so ridiculous! It takes energy to pressurize air. The energy to do that is greater then the energy you will get out do to losses of heat and frictional energies throughout the energy cycle. Sure the energy is being put in at a land based source and made portable, but to claim that it is free and could use energy generated onboard to pump up the air again is just stupid. wow how stupid that is. Energy being spent must come from somewhere. There is no perpetual motion. Except it!
just slap like 5 alternators on it and supply a compreser maybe be two and it could at least make it drive for a longer distances maybe not perpetual motion right a way but we might get there
there are cars on electricity, air, and water, BUT oil companies are covering this up because in these gas prices, they are getting filthy rich, and greed should be punished, too bad money runs the world
I'm not sure if this was mentioned...Although this is a viable technology, the problem is, ever see a compressed air tank spring a leak?..How do you protect the air tanks from a catastrophic rupture in an accident...They could kill or injure anyone too close...Just look at what a tire can do with 30 to 40 pounds of air pressure when it fails and blows...
@glk001 Yes thats true but, is it any less dangerous than something that will explode and then burn such as petrol and diesel? I think not, We all very well know what it dose.
@LunaticKreep Granted, ya can't make things error proof, but the days of the bic lighter cars are gone.Too many safety standards and fear of law suits have made gasoline fuel system so much more safer than decades past.Diesel is no more than #2 home heating oil, with both diesel and gas, your gonna need and ignition source.Is it any less dagerous?.I dunno, but for myself, I feel better with the technology of a carbon based fuel system right now, than I would sitting on top of a few air tanks...
this video is a drop of science in a sea of fantastic musings with no credibility. A science program alluding to practical application of perpetual motion? Disgusting.
The future on clean energy is in electricity. It's something everyone is familiar with and everyone has access to. The potential of electric motors is far more than gas and will provide the power and speed drivers want. We have barely scratched the surface on wind, solar, and thermal energy; once electric companies can produce 100% green energy we can have a 100% clean automobile
A lot of people will be very unhappy when they realize what this technology could have done for the earth -- and how many deaths and how much environmental damage could have been avoided in the process.
Perhaps this is the first time you have heard the term 'economic terrorist.' You are not alone. Who are those people and what did they do to get that label?
Many free energy scientists and private inventors have been harassed, threatened and murdered because of their knowledge of alternative energies, especially in the area of free energy [also known as OverUnity (OU)].
A scam, but not a new scam, a perpetual motion throbbing butt fuck!
To get perpetual motion – obeying the first law of thermodynamics - you have to have a heat pump (4 the plebs, a air compressor is a heat pump) that beats the Carnot cycle efficiency, i have been working on such a device for years, the answer is a sort of maxwells demon type of device that is cascaded like a Russian nested doll.
@1thelazylizard Did you ever pump up a dive tank with an bike pump? how many years did it take you? Or did you know it takes a 6kw air compressor running for about 6 hours to refill this piece of crap with it's 5 mile range? Depending on the cost of electricity where you live this will cost about $10 to $20
They still need energy to compress that air and with every motion some of the energy held in the car is lost, it can't just go on forever, sooner or later it would need more energy.
Where is that energy going to come from? This is only pushes the energy requrement to some other place.
A car running on compressed air is not very far fetched. The range will be in question of course.
This video is a little misleading however. They first said 0 cost to run then they admitted that it takes energy to compress air.
They started to lose ALOT of credibility in the video when they suggested the perpetual energy toward the end. They would have been better off not mentioning that.
“I think this is one invention the auto industry won’t get a chance to bury. We’ve got our working model and will soon have another on the streets”.
The real irony of it all lies in the fact that Alexander spent only about $500 to build his drivable model, while just around the corner from his home in Pasadena the CalTech Jet Propulsion Lab spent $600,000 of a $4-million grant and came up with a cumbersome monstrosity that hardly compares with the beat-up VW
"Compressed air is an energy carrier. It has to be compressed then it will restore and return what we gave it."
This is entirely true, but all it means is that the emissions the car would be producing are just happening before you drive the damn car. It TAKES ENERGY TO COMPRESS AIR PEOPLE.
Who Benefits from Suppressing Free Energy Devices?
The natural question here is who actually benefits if free energy production is suppressed? The answer to that question should be glaringly obvious. Big Oil certainly benefits from suppressing innovative devices that generate free energy. If such devices were openly available for the general public, where would companies like BP earn their money?
David McClintock - created his free energy device known as the "McClintock Air Motor" (US PAT #2,982,26100) which is a cross between a diesel engine with three cylinders with a compression ratio of 27 to 1, and a rotary engine with solar and plenary gears. It burns no fuel, but becomes self-running by driving it's own air compressor.
There are of course other incidents similar to this. Stan Meyer, a well-known inventor who apparently got his watergas working well, rushed from a restaurant and shouted “They’re killing me!” (Some reports stated he shouted “They’re poisoning me”), and then collapsed and died. Simply Google on the web, for many articles on Stan Meyer, his invention, the threats to his life, and his strange death.
@mikehanoo33 Stan Meyer, a well-known con man who never got his watergas working , rushed from a restaurant and shouted “They’re after me!” (Some reports stated he shouted “The investors are furious”)
This is happening, be part of the solution, or do nothing and you become part of the problem by default. Let’s give all children, and the rest of us, clean air to breathe NOW. This is our birthright. Beyond Tomorrow , Air Car Ready for Mass Production green.yahoo.com
@mikehanoo33 ; It's a hoax, idiot; a scam, a fraud. Good bloody gods. Have you any idea how much energy is required to compress enough air to operate an automobile for 200 miles? What the bloody fuck is wrong with you stupid shits?!
@Desertphile this may be a hoax , I got no ideea about this but there are other ways of better , cleaner and cheaper energy ... Well .... Why don't you research about the greatest , most essential resource on earth ?
@ugandaplayer "I got no ideea about this" Then why the fuck are you commenting on energy if you can't even do the basic maths that show this is a complete piece of crap.
@fizzguts I said i dont know nothing about this but I know about other energy means ... Wtf man ? Are you blind or simply hatin without reason ? Peace out bro , take a break from this shit life and go on a hooliday in nature or something , geez ...
@ugandaplayer Me HATING!! For fucks sake this con has taken more than $20 million from technically incompetent investors, wasting time that should be spent on REAL solutions. Of course I HATE it. The constant lies make me puke and the fact nitwits like you, with the knowledge of science less than a goldfish, "believe" in it, pisses me off. So in my world that is a perfectly reasonable response.
In your world full of fuzzy thinking and woolly thinking maybe not. NOT MY PROBLEM
perpetual motion bullshit , most likely they compress the air with a diesel engine at home or with electricity from the grid, in which case the emissions are released even before you use the car. i'd rather bet on solar-hydrogen cars because you can store more energy as a fuel than potential energy of pressure can.
If they issued the patent it worked , why is it so hard for some people to believe ? Do you have trouble believing your TV works ? Do you know how it works ?
We name the Cancer Dirty Dozen, the top cancer polluters in the Great Lakes region, which are: British Petroleum of Lima, Ohio, Kodak of Rochester, New York, G. E. Plastics of Mount Vernon, Indiana and Ottawa, Illinois, Pharmacia and Upjohn Co. of Portage, Michigan, Flexible Foam Products, Elkhart, Indiana, General Foam Corp, Bridgeview, Illinois, Foamex of Elkhart, Indiana, Tomkins Industry of Three Rivers, Michigan, Ford Electronics of Connersville, Indiana, Stone Container of Coxhocton, Ohio.
90 percent of this cancer pollution is dumped in the air, followed by pumped into the ground, dumped on land and into the water.Cancer kills 1,500 people in the United States every day, for a predicted total of about 565,000 this year. Environmental Health Perspectives reports that cancer is the "leading cause of disease related death among children in the United States, afflicting approximately 8,000 children under the age 15 annually.
The real issue is Pollution ! And petroleum is toxic and must be banned from use until we can use it without major pollution ! .Drivers: Did you know ?
1. Trucking is a very dangerous profession, about 600 drivers a year die in highway accidents.
2. Driving certain types of rigs like tankers and flatbeds is probably the most dangerous major occupations in the country.
3. About 55% of all class 8 (semis) driver fatalities occur in rollover accidents.
thereal issue is not how light, how many miles, how eco friendly it is, the real issue is how safe does it protect you and your family on a highway filled with semis, buses and trucks. a little bity car does not make americans feel safe. even though i wish it did. they should sell the hell out of this in china, the new #1 economy. how sad would that be when china passes us in eco friendly cars.
I love this idea... and I can't help but laugh at all the negative comments on it. It's exactly the same kind of derision that met the human race when it came to make a machine that could fly. Anything is plausible... and I will support this idea wholeheartedly.
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I was convinced till the end.
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seros2010 1 week ago
These things run into temperature issues because of basic scientific principles of compression and expansion (Boyles Law). This presentation not only fails to mention these, but becomes stupid by proposing to recompress the fuel source while driving along. Duh.
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The technology is legitimate, but this presentation and the narration is absurd. The writers ended the script by basically saying "it will generate air then use it up, so we get free energy" ....violating rudimentary scientific principles.
Air can make a great battery to store energy for transportation, but charging them with compressors that use electricity generated from fossil fuels doesn't really get us anywhere.
If it's charging off wind/solar/geothermal, there's some actual progress!
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nw82 2 weeks ago
If you drive an electric car you should be thanking the coal companies. The rest of us should be thanking the oil companies and tell the gov't to quit taxing the shit out of our gas! This idea of a bomb on four wheels is the beggest crock of shit. The way I see it, free markets would benefit all you crybabies out there... How the hell did I end up here anyway???
railroadtrash09 2 weeks ago
Yeah, when I was in 8th grade I envisioned a car that would run on air, and filter the out side air........but now Im 19, and, no engineer.......
randyseck 3 weeks ago
You are driving bombs.......
Dabber422 4 weeks ago
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I'm sure they have thought of this.... let's face it; they've managed to figure out how to built gasoline cars so that they don't explode every time they get in an accident
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If it was possable to take the money from the american milatary and foucus on cleaning up the mess we have made,think of were we could be.
992blackdragon 1 month ago
The comments here re-enforce my belief that 'innovation' is a four letter word in America. No one hates alternatives more than Americans. Most republicans and christians are so programmed, that they believe solar energy is an act of terrorism. They think we should all just behave and do what oil companies tell us to do. The only solution is to begin locking Americans in garages with running cars.
PirateSygnal 1 month ago
Indians discovered God. Now Indian Tata is making a car that runs on His free Air.
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hromnikcyril 1 month ago
Great! Now , how do we get these here- in the USA?????
DAREDARVIL 1 month ago
I first heard about compressed air vehicles back in 2006, makes sense. In Italy a shipping warehouse converted their forklifts to run on compressed air because their employees were getting sick from the gas/diesel fumes. At that same time a German company was also manufacturing a compressed air car. Use 3-D Solar, Wind, and/or Hydrogen to fill the tanks and you do not burn any fossil fuels. Every home an energy plant and self contained is the answer. Fantastic.
cbemerine 1 month ago
How do I know if the anti air car information is not coming from the Oil Industry? I checked RipOff Report.com and found no reports filed. Franchise or Auto Sales. However there are no updated web pages regarding the air car since 2007. Makes a person wonder.
retiredhappy2 1 month ago
An awesome car that is illegal to purchase. Why? Guess who owns the roads.
canadarideforclimate 1 month ago
@canadarideforclimate This long running CON has always been available to rich technically ignorant suckers who put up the $250,000 franchise price. They are now so angry with the loss of their "investment" LOL, they have formed a group to try to sue MDI. Good luck with that, why do these nitwits think MDI is incorporated in Luxemburg For the scenery? Bwahahaha
fizzguts 1 month ago in playlist SCIENCE - Air Cars
@fizzguts lol
canadarideforclimate 1 month ago
I'm all for it if it's feasible- I tend to be a bit skeptical of the perpetual motion car near the end.
1957Jfk 1 month ago
@1957Jfk
skeptical does not begin to cover it. The underlying tech is sound though, if expensive.
copycat042 1 month ago
@copycat042
the car, not the silly perpetual motion bit at the end.
copycat042 1 month ago
So this is a steam engine with compressed air running through it not compressed steam? Not new technology....
Think of the dangers if you get in an accident, you would need it to be a convertible so the "air bags" underneath will launch you up.
w1ldyovvnz 2 months ago
@w1ldyovvnz yeah imagine if people highly combustible liquid in those tanks! Oh wait...
TheRocksteadily 1 month ago
Well all i know is that i don't understand a bit about compress air, but i do know about Xtreme Fuel Treatment it not only saves on gas but you can make money from it ,check it guys i know i'm making money from selling this product and also i save money Big time on GAS.
stephanie3939 2 months ago
Why would anyone chantise an inventor who is trying to make the world better? If it works or not at least he's trying. What have you ever done for the planet?
retiredhappy2 2 months ago 12
@retiredhappy2 Because this bunch of scamming arsewipres have taken over $20 million since 1996 promoting the idea of franchises for an air powered vehicle, a really old technology that was over in the 1900's
fizzguts 1 month ago in playlist SCIENCE - Air Cars
@retiredhappy2 Well as the sharks behind this have ripped off investors to the tune of millions of $ for a pathetic short range inefficient con they need to be chastised, or better still given a prison snetence
fizzguts 5 days ago
this video is so funny, I think I will get electric motor and hook it to a bigger generator that send power back to the motor and the rest over will run my house, It should work just like the statements in this video lol
newgun2000 2 months ago
take some engineering classes, "what if the car could run the generator to compress its own air"...ever hear of thermodynamics? there is no such thing as perpetual motion. And dont even get me started on safety...ever seen what happens to a compressed air tank that blows up? times that by 3 next time you get in a fender bender and get your arms and legs blown off.
BigDogStoryTime 2 months ago
wow so were do we get free energy to compress the air to run this engine?
newgun2000 2 months ago
@newgun2000 seriously, i can't stand when "science" is dumbed down to make false promises for uneducated people. You got people saying "where the hell are these cars, big oil companies want to steal our money"... whoever made this show should be out of a job.
BigDogStoryTime 2 months ago
It's almost 2012 now, four years after this video was uploaded. WHERE THE HELL ARE THESE CARS??????
gr8vibes2 2 months ago 2
@gr8vibes2 these cars are for idiots. have fun driving your "free" car
BigDogStoryTime 2 months ago
@BigDogStoryTime yeah fun as hell; i get free infinite mileage on a car that doesn't exist
gr8vibes2 2 months ago
@gr8vibes2 well those were prototypes. It takes a lot of testing and seeing how they will work. There have been more since then and mostly in France that have those stations. But like the US the big oil companies and Car companies are going to try and suppress these types of cars rather than let them come here. Slowly the total Electric cars are becoming more popular and Big car companies had to relent to even adding electric or making electric cars but at a huge cost to the public.
rdtravis73 2 months ago
@rdtravis73 I'm skeptical. Fill a tank full of air and let it out slowly and in no time it gets empty. So the claim it can move you many hundred miles on a tank is far fetched. Think about it. The air has to move heavy pistons through cylinder walls with enough pressure to turn the crankcase to propell your heavy car forward takes a little more air and pressure than what these tanks could ever hold.
gr8vibes2 2 months ago
The first 3 minutes and 10 seconds was great, a trialed and proven technology that started with the fireless steam engine.
The last twenty seconds... Who wrote that junk? I only need to give it a glancing thought to know that that theory his extremely flawed.
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
The way forward ,well done.
toeblarone 3 months ago
@toeblarone A 5 mile actual range, with a 6 hp engine, a 6 hour refill time using a 6kw compressor and appallingly low efficency is "the way forward" Not in this umiverse
fizzguts 3 months ago
How long do you sleep, how long do you spend at work and how long do you spend outside your car on holiday? Refilling should never be a problem if you think ahead. Also you could have a large precompressed tank for emergency purposes, it'd have to be at a slightly higher pressure and will take seconds to fill up.
If you have the air tank to take the pressure, you could continue pressurising the gas until it becomes a liquid, the molecules will decrease space by at least 1000 fold, more range.
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
@Zappyguy111 Read again what I wrote "5 MILE ACTUAL RANGE 6 hour recharge from a 6 kw compressor (That's big by the way). It doesn't matter how large a prefilled tank you have YOU HAVE TO FILL IT AT SOME STAGE
You can not pressurize air until it becomes liquid, to do that it HAS TO BE CHILLED to cryogenic temperatures which is even more energy lost. Liquid air STILL has a lousy energy density.
This is all basic physics and simple maths. Do a bit of research
fizzguts 3 months ago
@fizzguts
And the prefilled tank is a stationary tank you leave at home. You keep it permanently pressurised until you need it. Just have the compressor on a low pressure trip so it refills the tank when it runs low.
It'd take a 6kw compressor 6 hours, but this thing, you just plug it in and go in 5 minutes.
It's 5am, pulled an all nighter. Math's isn't something I want to do right now. Maybe later.
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
@fizzguts
Triple point? I'll leave you to examine the pressure/temperature graph. Though I admit, the 1000 fold was a very (very) broad guess and is almost certainly wrong.
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
@Zappyguy111 The weight of gas in a 4500psi cylinder vs the weight of liquid air in the same volume is a simple calculation use moles ie approx 30grams of air per 22.4L at S.T.P. Use P1V1=P2V2 this give you grams of air at 4500psi vs grams of liquid air in same volume. Not much difference.
The power to compress the air has to come from somewhere compression is hideously inefficient
You can not pressurize air until it becomes liquid, to do that it HAS TO BE CHILLED FACT
fizzguts 3 months ago
@fizzguts
Mate, you could've ended this argument long ago by just saying that "at temperatures that exceed 190K, it exceeds the critical point of nitrogen".
Damn near impossible to find a phase diagram of nitrogen on the net...
What about your opinion on the prefilled tank?
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
@fizzguts 6kw compressor for six hours .wow you must have the worlds worst compressor.
toeblarone 3 months ago
@toeblarone Nope simple maths and their figures agree. Don't confuse the intake volume of a compressor for the output rate. 220L at 4500 psi Do the numbers and go away.
fizzguts 3 months ago
@fizzguts You seem to know more than TATA. Better let them know these findings quick before they put this into production.
toeblarone 3 months ago
@toeblarone I know more than ignorant posters of youtube who wouldn't know a fact if it bit them or how to do research
FACTS TATA will not build any air cars because the technology doesn't work as claimed (email from TATA)
This piece of crap has a 5 mile range (MDI's only published test long since removed from their website)
Since 1996 the same stupid claims and promises have been made and broken.
The idea is appallingly inefficient (The Berkley study) and always has been
fizzguts 3 months ago
This was totally an idea i had.
erosener93 4 months ago
Add magnets into the equation and you're shweet.
xInsurgency 4 months ago 2
I was waiting for a punchline. But I guess they are not joking. Selling perpetual motion yet again.
By the way, I can fly if I pull hard on bootstraps. No, really!
PDZ1122 4 months ago
It such baloney to say a car run on air. Americans a so gullible and science ignorant. That are in for a big wake up call some day and blame anyone but themselves. SS
sailingsolar 4 months ago
This is kind of like troll science.
dragonsder 4 months ago 11
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MrAlecaf 4 months ago in playlist MrAlecaf's Favorited Videos
@MrAlecaf you really are vastly uneducated
Bowser899 4 months ago
@MrAlecaf So you didn't bother to do 5 minutes googling that would have shown you this is a long running CON. You just posting the fact you are a window licker on youtube. Rrright that makes sense NOT!
fizzguts 4 months ago
@fizzguts why is Michio Kaku here supporting this idea? Hes a world renowned phycisist.
MrAlecaf 4 months ago
@MrAlecaf He's not. It's a butchered clip with a voice over. Read carefully IT"S A CON
fizzguts 4 months ago
But, we can confirm, according to the American Academy of Sciences, that more than six thousand patents have been suppressed for so-called “security” or “public safety” reasons.
[DW: This data point is in my new book “The Source Field Investigations.” The Federation of American Scientists revealed that 5,135 inventions had been classified by the end of FY 2010.
mikehanoo33 4 months ago
wouldnt the air tanks expload if the car was in an accident?
BigDaddyDJD 4 months ago
@BigDaddyDJD They're made of carbon fiber, so they just split
ikbinhans 4 months ago
@ikbinhans They are air tanks whether they are made of carbon fiber steel alloy if they are faulty or in a big impact they explode. There have been composite tank explosions, just as nasty as a steel tank.
MDI LIE about everything except the cost of buying a license
fizzguts 4 months ago
Just put a solar powered air compressor on it. Problem solved.
Couvillon1982 4 months ago
Yeah, when perpetual motion got introduced at the end, it really made me wonder about the rest of the piece. How far can the prototypes ACTUALLY go right now on their onboard tanks. What sort of PSI are we talking?
I'm all for practical, affordable alternatives to burning fossil fuels but I haven't seen anything practical besides nuclear and hydro-electric. Wind and solar power require obscene taxpayer subsidies currently.
flooflox 4 months ago 2
its people like alot of you down there that slow everybody down. its about moving forward onto bigger better things. thinking outside of the box and creating something that has the potential of being great. so stop hating :) if everybody in the world was like @einstyndotcom we would never be where we are today in terms of technology. just sayin
richardbongatmolina1 4 months ago
@richardbongatmolina1 Physics aside, we are where we are for exactly that reason. I've completely lost faith in humanity as a whole. There are those that think only of their own greed & so many more that are simply sheep with their eyes on "The Jersey Shore" or "The Apprentice." I find it highly unlikely that we will go to space as noted in even the most conservative Science Fiction. I imagine us falling into another Dark Age long before most of humanity can reach a point of real enlightenment.
CaesiusX 4 months ago
oh my fucking god, this is so retarded it's making my head hurt
nicotinefist 4 months ago
dumb. how u dumbos create compressed air?
how that generator get energy?
do u dumbos know anything abt physics
amilagmail 4 months ago in playlist SCIENCE - Air Cars
I can't believe this video ends with the suggestion that this air-car idea is essentially a perpetual motion machine. I think it would be better to develop a car that runs on water (by extracting hydrogen) and using a built-in dehumidifier to create its own water supply from the atmosphere. This would be the closest to a practical perpetual motion machine although not a real one per se.
altjff15 4 months ago in playlist More videos from AmericansWakeUp
Who says the compressed air has to come from oil? Energy sources like solar or Fuel cells can provide the energy needed to compress air. You guys still think in little boxes, for every bit of skepticism you come up with there's like 5 solutions. That's just current tech too, later on as solar efficiency increases the concept of perpetual fuel could actually happen on properly outfitted machine.
aztecsaxwarrior 4 months ago
@aztecsaxwarrior So the $40,000 dollar array you need to run the honking great compressor this POC needs for it's ACTUAL 5 mile range makes sense to you? I have a bridge you might like to buy.
You of course are SO convinced photovoltaics and a wind turbine are the answer you have them on you house? Right? Hello? Silence? PV and wind only make sense it you are miles from the nearest power lines The opportunity cost kills it if you are hooked up to the grid
fizzguts 4 months ago
can somebody tell who these pleople are i can´t cache theis names
zakbeh 4 months ago
I am not even going to coment on the stupidity of the comments to follow my initial post. (fizzguts- you are a trip! )
einstyndotcom 4 months ago
@einstyndotcom Can you send me a PM to explain your initial post? I'm a bit slow...
If you don't want to take the time, it's cool.
I think it would be awesome to see this happen someday.
Zentz29 4 months ago
Is a air compressor powering an air compressor even possible? Doesn't this violate one of the laws of thermal dynamics or something?
anime911AA 4 months ago
air compressors run on electricity. And what fuel do we need 4 that? Sun? Wind? Think positive!!!
Frankistop 4 months ago
@Frankistop So the $40,000 dollar array you need to run the honking great compressor this POC needs for it's ACTUAL 5 mile range makes sense to you? I have a bridge you might like to buy.
fizzguts 4 months ago
what is the fuel used to power the air compressor?
TribalGlobe 5 months ago
I can't believe this announcer actually allowed himself to repeat that copy. If the energy to compress the air comes from oil, well then hey, we're back to square one.
LIGHT is the only future to energy limitless. It powers the universe, it's good enough for us. The only caveat is that deep sea creatures are now known to thrive without light but they are certainly not in the majority wrt life on Earth.
dreadrocksean 5 months ago in playlist SCIENCE - Air Cars
At our technology making that compressed air consumes more oil then when you use it in a combustion engine.
Compressing the air with the suns energy would be nice tho ....
Go1d3nZ 5 months ago
People, read up a bit: free-energy-info dotcom. Take a look at Chapter 8 on Fuel-less engines.
jazzyswami 5 months ago
Condemnation without proper investigation, the zenith of ignorance.
jazzyswami 5 months ago
Is Air Nitrogen?
tnguyen318 5 months ago
@tnguyen318
Unbelievable. 20 seconds in Wikipedia or Google but no you have to make a complete butthead of yourself on youtube.
fizzguts 5 months ago
Its like saying I can use electricity to run a generator which will then make more electricity to run the engine.
nicgrev103 5 months ago
This is bullshit it physically cannot be self perpetuating. The notion of it being a in "perfect circle" ( compressed air running a generator to compress more air to run the engine ) is flawed logic energy will be lost within the inherent inefficiencies of energy conversion. Its like saying I can use electricity to run a generator which will then make more electricity to run the engine.
nicgrev103 5 months ago
Or we all could just walk... :)
llbb010 5 months ago
@llbb010 YOU can walk. And while you're at it take of your hi tech shoes and clothes. Cut wood with stone to make a spear to hunt for your food. Ungrateful idiot.
dreadrocksean 5 months ago in playlist SCIENCE - Air Cars
This has been flagged as spam show
The actual range is 6 miles as posted eons ago by MDI and since removed from their web site. This is a long running con with no independent tests ..... if anyone can come up with ONE INDEPENDENT TEST confirming MDI's 200km lies opps! claims I'll pull my posts.
Seems clear to me, still the people who shill for MDI are complete morons
fizzguts 5 months ago
Very good idea for city cars, a few points, this is not zero emissions, you still have to burn some fuel to run a compressor and fill the air tanks in the car, also what about all the emissions to make the car in the first place, zero emissions is a false claim in this video and it cannot compress air without using some other from of energy, would be a much better video if they told us the complete truth, however I do agree it is a good idea, no question
rwdford 5 months ago
The commentary on this video is quite possibly the dumbest I have ever heard from a show claiming to be scientific. If the compressed air engine did not but power a generator, it would have losses in energy due to limitations in efficiency. Same goes for the generator to run a compressor. If you take out the middle man, you have a compressed air engine powering a compressor, which due to frictional and heat losses, will not function without energy added. You cannot create energy from "thin air."
rdbellman 5 months ago
Additionally, all of these new "fuels" (hydrogen, air, etc) are simply forms of storing energy, and have more in common with batteries than actual fuels. It takes more electrical energy to separate hydrogen and oxygen from water than you get back from hydrogen fuel cells or from burning hydrogen, just as it takes more electrical energy to compress air than you get back. The only benefit to moving toward these technologies will be realized with natural electricity generators (solar, wind, hydro).
rdbellman 5 months ago
if you could recharge the tanks from vehicle movement then you have free energy. who cares about top speed. even 20mph would be awesome
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MarielleMooney50 5 months ago
cost nothing??What about the compressor??
dario7000 5 months ago
Lol open your eyes,the government docent give a shit if where fucking up our own world!As long the rich stay rich they dont care!If this world really wanted to make the best out of itself we could!But there are people just Blind or selfish to do anything about it.We are killing ourselves but many few people care.......1 is useless but if we all worked together for a better future dam
shure we can make this a wonderful place!And all of you that say where's Jesus where is our all mighty god and
artobahn 5 months ago
@artobahn
It's a con, hideously inefficient, short range (5 miles) and has never been offered for sale. Place a deposit, buy a franchise and loose your money.
fizzguts 5 months ago
THE UNITED STATES WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN BIG OIL HAS OUR GOVERMENT IN THERE BACK POCKET AND WE ARE CHAINED TO THE GAS PUMP,JUST THINK OF THE MONEY EVERY ONE WOULD SAVE YOU COULD PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME, CONSUMER SPENDING AT STORES WOULD BE THROUGH THE ROOF UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD NEXT NOTHING WALMART STORES WOULD SELL OUT ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHERS SOUND TO GOOD TO BE TRUE ,ONE CAN DREAM CANT THEY!!!
Dennis70599 5 months ago
India invented this motor concept
prjerry7 5 months ago
Lets do this, enough of expensive oil!
Sasukekillsitachi 6 months ago
this video sounded awesome... until the narrator FARTED the idea of perpetual motion out of his mouth. i'm sure the engineer who designed this car was FACE-PALMIG like mad when he saw how they presented his idea.
mkotisrael 6 months ago
I don't think the narrarator was using the word "perpetual motion" literally , just figuratively. Michio Kaku knows it violates the laws of thermodynamics.
MrSlayerDeth 6 months ago
A car that fuels itself while you drive!!! WOW!! That's awesome!!! ... and I have a great bridge I'd like to sell you in New York. man ... people will believe anything!!
WA3USG 6 months ago
wow, that's free and awesome.
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DJBRKFST 6 months ago in playlist Cool IDEA
So. You use an air generator.... to fill up compressed air.... in another air tank to drive the car more... but.... hold on.... do you need a generator to fill up the generator.. and also a generator to fill up that generator. I am sorry but that is kinda silly. You still have to someday fill up that generator so no, it isn't perpetual motion.
AlbelTelWicked 6 months ago
That perpetual motion claim made zero sense. Somewhere down the line the air will need to be compressed by something.
dick117 6 months ago
Sounds a lot quieter than the older prototypes - at least in this video.
coyoteold1 6 months ago
fuk that make a car that runs on co2 and releases air then we're talkin
RayRay282828 6 months ago
The idea of a car running on compressed air isn't bullshit, although it's extremely unlikely that it will ever compete with combustion or battery-based cars... And they can't go anywhere near 200 miles on one tank.
The statements about it being "free" to refuel, or that it could be a perpetual motion machine are complete bullshit and I so I hope this didn't make it on the air on any actual non-satirical TV show.
himonfukwe 6 months ago
@himonfukwe COMMUNIST
MyTheQwerty 6 months ago
...It takes power to compress air. And once the air is released, you don't magically re-harness the power from it. Inspiring idea, but the perpetual motion thing might as well have been narrated by the goat-man from Narnia.. bullllsshiiiittt
TheSilkoth 6 months ago
and there is no squashing from the oil companies, does it surprise you that the same people that would believe this crap would also believe the conspiracy theory? if it were true, why would hybrid and electric cars even be coming out. Give me a brake. I know people in the oil and gas field and they have no trouble selling oil for many many end uses. There is no threat.
einstyndotcom 6 months ago
@einstyndotcom I feel like you are the only logical person commenting here xD
FloppyTrout 6 months ago
So you can not create a perpetual motion cycle that feeds itself over and over. There is no getting away from energy out equals energy in minus the efficiency losses. Accept it!
einstyndotcom 6 months ago 12
you can use it to turn a mechanical device to make propulsion or turn an electric generator, but if you use some of that potential energy to turn a generator which will convert that limited potential energy of compressed gas into electrical energy then use that electrical energy to turn a compressor to supply compressed air, the end result is that you have produced less energy in compressed air then it took from your original compressed air potential energy supply.
einstyndotcom 6 months ago
Compressing air to do work is not new. What do you think a steam engine is really doing? the same thing applies, energy in the form of heat must be added to turn water to steam that expands into air, hence compressed air, or you use energy in the form of electricity to turn a compressor to fill a pressure tank with air that can then use the air to turn a motor or simple air tool or dentist drill. once that air tank is filled it stores a defined amount of potential energy, ...continued
einstyndotcom 6 months ago
What do you mean except it? Accept what? Has someone invented new laws of physics? Can anyone answer the question, where does the energy come from? It takes energy to compress the air. the guy says" one day the car will have a generator that runs on compressed air to generate power to compress the air again, a car that fuels itself over and over... perpetual motion" do you all realize how ridicules this statement is!? If you believe this I will sell you land on the bottom of the ocean.
einstyndotcom 6 months ago
YOU PEOPLE DONT GET IT, THAT CAR IS EQUIPED WITH A HOSE JUST UNDER THE DRIVERS SEAT THAT HE PULLS OUT AND PUMPS IN AIR FROM HIS/HER LUNGS TO COMPRESS THE CYLINDERS TILL THEY'RE FULL .
murggik 6 months ago
The frenchman sounds smart, the narrator is an idiot.
myhrcat 6 months ago
dont you all get it? you cant just put altinators on board and creat energy without consuming up more air to overcome the drag on the alternators to creat the energy. wow, I am amazed at people. why dont we just put ten thousand alternators on it and power electric motors onboard too. yeah, have the air push the car and turn altenators and have that turn a compressor to feed the air supply again, dont you see the flaw in the physical logic in that theory? where is the raw energy comming from?
einstyndotcom 6 months ago 10
@einstyndotcom , it is not perpetual motion, the tanks of compressed air move the pistons. The compressed air is compressed wit other energy, either an electric compressor at a charging station, or buy a compressor mounted on the car. Check out some other videos abut this, some of them are more clear on how it will work,
beckypastrone 6 months ago
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malwebb1 5 months ago
@einstyndotcom It's the presenter's need to hype it up that leads him into nonsense, which sadly undermines the fine science behind the innovation. The same people who fall for this kind of flawed logic also fall for pyramid schemes.
malwebb1 5 months ago
@einstyndotcom
ok, maybe not perpetual motion but how about something like 1000 or even 10000 miles on one tank. now to me that is just as exciting as perpetual motion.
MovieLuvBus 5 months ago
@einstyndotcom Easy, if you have a compressed air bottle on board (with a slight amount of air in it), just opening the valve will start up the generator. From there it would feed itself energy. Compressed air is super-pressurised so it creates energy just by leaving the bottle.
DavidShroomBeattie 4 months ago
@DavidShroomBeattie Congratulations for showing you have zero understanding of physics to the whole world. The real answer is larger tyres on the rear so you always roll down hill.
fizzguts 4 months ago
This is so ridiculous! It takes energy to pressurize air. The energy to do that is greater then the energy you will get out do to losses of heat and frictional energies throughout the energy cycle. Sure the energy is being put in at a land based source and made portable, but to claim that it is free and could use energy generated onboard to pump up the air again is just stupid. wow how stupid that is. Energy being spent must come from somewhere. There is no perpetual motion. Except it!
einstyndotcom 6 months ago
@einstyndotcom *Accept it... other, yeah reasonable points. I wonder how much energy is lost as heat in the process.
Buleeted 6 months ago
just slap like 5 alternators on it and supply a compreser maybe be two and it could at least make it drive for a longer distances maybe not perpetual motion right a way but we might get there
rcfetish 6 months ago
They passed Carbon Tax.... So the Air Is Not Free.... As Long as the IMF is alive & well there will never ever be any freedom on planet earth...
Waynedog1 6 months ago
there are cars on electricity, air, and water, BUT oil companies are covering this up because in these gas prices, they are getting filthy rich, and greed should be punished, too bad money runs the world
lifemetall 6 months ago
I think is not very efficient and the last part is stupid car that can recharge itself perpetual motion.
electrodacus 6 months ago
Hmm, it doesn't actually cost "nothing", it takes power to compress your air.
GabeMorris 7 months ago
I'm not sure if this was mentioned...Although this is a viable technology, the problem is, ever see a compressed air tank spring a leak?..How do you protect the air tanks from a catastrophic rupture in an accident...They could kill or injure anyone too close...Just look at what a tire can do with 30 to 40 pounds of air pressure when it fails and blows...
glk001 7 months ago
@glk001 Yes thats true but, is it any less dangerous than something that will explode and then burn such as petrol and diesel? I think not, We all very well know what it dose.
LunaticKreep 6 months ago
@LunaticKreep Granted, ya can't make things error proof, but the days of the bic lighter cars are gone.Too many safety standards and fear of law suits have made gasoline fuel system so much more safer than decades past.Diesel is no more than #2 home heating oil, with both diesel and gas, your gonna need and ignition source.Is it any less dagerous?.I dunno, but for myself, I feel better with the technology of a carbon based fuel system right now, than I would sitting on top of a few air tanks...
glk001 6 months ago
this video is a drop of science in a sea of fantastic musings with no credibility. A science program alluding to practical application of perpetual motion? Disgusting.
a3axon 7 months ago
The future on clean energy is in electricity. It's something everyone is familiar with and everyone has access to. The potential of electric motors is far more than gas and will provide the power and speed drivers want. We have barely scratched the surface on wind, solar, and thermal energy; once electric companies can produce 100% green energy we can have a 100% clean automobile
jcd1012 7 months ago
A lot of people will be very unhappy when they realize what this technology could have done for the earth -- and how many deaths and how much environmental damage could have been avoided in the process.
mikehanoo33 7 months ago
Wow, car run on onions
(kidding)
Duetschgas 8 months ago
Free energy labeled 'economic terrorism'
Perhaps this is the first time you have heard the term 'economic terrorist.' You are not alone. Who are those people and what did they do to get that label?
Many free energy scientists and private inventors have been harassed, threatened and murdered because of their knowledge of alternative energies, especially in the area of free energy [also known as OverUnity (OU)].
mikehanoo33 8 months ago 2
There was a scam company around in the year 2000 that also claimed to have such a air engine, i think it was called entropy systems.
Entropy always increases, or does it? what about inside a black hole solar system?
coldrunning2002 8 months ago
A scam, but not a new scam, a perpetual motion throbbing butt fuck!
To get perpetual motion – obeying the first law of thermodynamics - you have to have a heat pump (4 the plebs, a air compressor is a heat pump) that beats the Carnot cycle efficiency, i have been working on such a device for years, the answer is a sort of maxwells demon type of device that is cascaded like a Russian nested doll.
coldrunning2002 8 months ago
what about energy that you need to compressed that air. What a lie and missdirection. Its not 0.00$ its more like 20.00$
bykashka75 8 months ago
@bykashka75
You ever use a bicycle pump? How much did it cost you to fill that tire? You ever inflate an air mattress? How much did it cost you to inflate it?
1thelazylizard 7 months ago
@1thelazylizard Did you ever pump up a dive tank with an bike pump? how many years did it take you? Or did you know it takes a 6kw air compressor running for about 6 hours to refill this piece of crap with it's 5 mile range? Depending on the cost of electricity where you live this will cost about $10 to $20
fizzguts 7 months ago
It lost credibility with perpetual motion.................
InvalidMemberAccount 8 months ago
They still need energy to compress that air and with every motion some of the energy held in the car is lost, it can't just go on forever, sooner or later it would need more energy.
Where is that energy going to come from? This is only pushes the energy requrement to some other place.
Unbeginner 8 months ago
A car running on compressed air is not very far fetched. The range will be in question of course.
This video is a little misleading however. They first said 0 cost to run then they admitted that it takes energy to compress air.
They started to lose ALOT of credibility in the video when they suggested the perpetual energy toward the end. They would have been better off not mentioning that.
lostbooger 8 months ago
“I think this is one invention the auto industry won’t get a chance to bury. We’ve got our working model and will soon have another on the streets”.
The real irony of it all lies in the fact that Alexander spent only about $500 to build his drivable model, while just around the corner from his home in Pasadena the CalTech Jet Propulsion Lab spent $600,000 of a $4-million grant and came up with a cumbersome monstrosity that hardly compares with the beat-up VW
mikehanoo33 8 months ago
"Compressed air is an energy carrier. It has to be compressed then it will restore and return what we gave it."
This is entirely true, but all it means is that the emissions the car would be producing are just happening before you drive the damn car. It TAKES ENERGY TO COMPRESS AIR PEOPLE.
choronos 8 months ago
Who Benefits from Suppressing Free Energy Devices?
The natural question here is who actually benefits if free energy production is suppressed? The answer to that question should be glaringly obvious. Big Oil certainly benefits from suppressing innovative devices that generate free energy. If such devices were openly available for the general public, where would companies like BP earn their money?
mikehanoo33 8 months ago
David McClintock - created his free energy device known as the "McClintock Air Motor" (US PAT #2,982,26100) which is a cross between a diesel engine with three cylinders with a compression ratio of 27 to 1, and a rotary engine with solar and plenary gears. It burns no fuel, but becomes self-running by driving it's own air compressor.
mikehanoo33 8 months ago
There are of course other incidents similar to this. Stan Meyer, a well-known inventor who apparently got his watergas working well, rushed from a restaurant and shouted “They’re killing me!” (Some reports stated he shouted “They’re poisoning me”), and then collapsed and died. Simply Google on the web, for many articles on Stan Meyer, his invention, the threats to his life, and his strange death.
mikehanoo33 8 months ago
@mikehanoo33 Stan Meyer, a well-known con man who never got his watergas working , rushed from a restaurant and shouted “They’re after me!” (Some reports stated he shouted “The investors are furious”)
fizzguts 8 months ago
The claims towards the end of the video demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the first and second laws of thermodynamics. A load of hooey.
mkeating24 8 months ago
HOW DO YOU THINK THAT YOU COMPRESS AIR?????
obj116able 9 months ago
This is happening, be part of the solution, or do nothing and you become part of the problem by default. Let’s give all children, and the rest of us, clean air to breathe NOW. This is our birthright. Beyond Tomorrow , Air Car Ready for Mass Production green.yahoo.com
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
@mikehanoo33 ; It's a hoax, idiot; a scam, a fraud. Good bloody gods. Have you any idea how much energy is required to compress enough air to operate an automobile for 200 miles? What the bloody fuck is wrong with you stupid shits?!
Desertphile 9 months ago
@Desertphile this may be a hoax , I got no ideea about this but there are other ways of better , cleaner and cheaper energy ... Well .... Why don't you research about the greatest , most essential resource on earth ?
ugandaplayer 8 months ago
@ugandaplayer "I got no ideea about this" Then why the fuck are you commenting on energy if you can't even do the basic maths that show this is a complete piece of crap.
fizzguts 8 months ago
@fizzguts I said i dont know nothing about this but I know about other energy means ... Wtf man ? Are you blind or simply hatin without reason ? Peace out bro , take a break from this shit life and go on a hooliday in nature or something , geez ...
ugandaplayer 8 months ago
@ugandaplayer Me HATING!! For fucks sake this con has taken more than $20 million from technically incompetent investors, wasting time that should be spent on REAL solutions. Of course I HATE it. The constant lies make me puke and the fact nitwits like you, with the knowledge of science less than a goldfish, "believe" in it, pisses me off. So in my world that is a perfectly reasonable response.
In your world full of fuzzy thinking and woolly thinking maybe not. NOT MY PROBLEM
fizzguts 8 months ago
perpetual motion bullshit , most likely they compress the air with a diesel engine at home or with electricity from the grid, in which case the emissions are released even before you use the car. i'd rather bet on solar-hydrogen cars because you can store more energy as a fuel than potential energy of pressure can.
beruman 9 months ago
If they issued the patent it worked , why is it so hard for some people to believe ? Do you have trouble believing your TV works ? Do you know how it works ?
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
YOUR WORRIED ABOUT HOW SAFE THE CAR IS BUILT , ARE YOU SERIOUS ! THIS IS WHAT WILL KILL YOUR FAMILY ! CANCER ! WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
We name the Cancer Dirty Dozen, the top cancer polluters in the Great Lakes region, which are: British Petroleum of Lima, Ohio, Kodak of Rochester, New York, G. E. Plastics of Mount Vernon, Indiana and Ottawa, Illinois, Pharmacia and Upjohn Co. of Portage, Michigan, Flexible Foam Products, Elkhart, Indiana, General Foam Corp, Bridgeview, Illinois, Foamex of Elkhart, Indiana, Tomkins Industry of Three Rivers, Michigan, Ford Electronics of Connersville, Indiana, Stone Container of Coxhocton, Ohio.
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
90 percent of this cancer pollution is dumped in the air, followed by pumped into the ground, dumped on land and into the water.Cancer kills 1,500 people in the United States every day, for a predicted total of about 565,000 this year. Environmental Health Perspectives reports that cancer is the "leading cause of disease related death among children in the United States, afflicting approximately 8,000 children under the age 15 annually.
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
The real issue is Pollution ! And petroleum is toxic and must be banned from use until we can use it without major pollution ! .Drivers: Did you know ?
1. Trucking is a very dangerous profession, about 600 drivers a year die in highway accidents.
2. Driving certain types of rigs like tankers and flatbeds is probably the most dangerous major occupations in the country.
3. About 55% of all class 8 (semis) driver fatalities occur in rollover accidents.
4. Another 10% occur in fuel oil fires.
mikehanoo33 9 months ago
thereal issue is not how light, how many miles, how eco friendly it is, the real issue is how safe does it protect you and your family on a highway filled with semis, buses and trucks. a little bity car does not make americans feel safe. even though i wish it did. they should sell the hell out of this in china, the new #1 economy. how sad would that be when china passes us in eco friendly cars.
GJ3200 9 months ago
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