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Uploaded by on Jul 24, 2010

This is a Gast Air Motor with a 14" pulley and a Chinese 1800 rpm 10k generator head with an approx. 7" pulley. This was the first test to see if it would work. It was being powered by one 1600 psi small air tank. It's gonna take a lot of air but this should show that a windmill could turn a compressor and then store the compressed air in a big high pressure tank and then turn it into electricity.

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  • @TheNallidge oh dear, how sad, another patronizing dick on youtube.

    "i was speaking about charging air tanks on a vehicle from stationary tanks in a house to be used in a air/electric hybrid application." Which is so stupid due to the horrible energy losses no one with a brain would consider it for more than a nanosecond.

    "I was also comparing air and batteries" Yep but you were talking cack. power charger bBattery motor 80% efficient at the worst

    compressor air tank motor 30% at best

  • "to be used in a air/electric hybrid application." yes of course adding a hideously inefficient air system to an efficient battery system Well that would be OK in the land of the terminally dim. Do some numbers or get some one with a brain to do it for you and stop being a knob.

  • @TheNallidge The air tank will be exhausted in a few minutes if the generator was really putting out any power. Go to the GAST web site look at the power air consumption curves Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

    Charge time depends entirely on how big a windmill and the size of the compressor it is driving.

    Why are you talking about ICE engines? Using an ICE to power a compressor to run a air motor to run a generator would of course be inefficient but completely mind bogglingly stupid.

  • this is a good idea , but it is not going to work.

  • you willing to share any info on what you did? am charity based, looking to use solar power to run compressor, store air and use on demand.

  • Yes it will work but it throws away over 80% of the energy due to losses during compression and expansion. You really need to do some numbers on the cost of the tanks and the energy EQUIVALENT stored in batteries. It won't be as "cheap" as you think if you compare energy out from both systems

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