Air Powered Moped: Michigan Tech Undergraduate Expo 2010

Students from Michigan Tech develop an air powered moped for their senior design project.

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Education

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• Michigan
• technological
• university
• Senior
• Design
• Undergraduate
• Expo
• 2010

[fuzzynostic]

No one on you tube has got it right just yet

[sasserdave]

this is cool but thebike still isnt green as retards say

[dakotachristianson]

environmental junkies,yea that's u'r market! Just don't call'em that-geek,lol

[ismokewead420]

one disliker saw the word beiber

[ufoengines]

Seen the Green Speed race bike?

[fizzguts]

@comethoj To refill these air tanks costs about $10 because that's what dive shops charge

[comethoj]

"to refill these air tanks cost 22 cents" is bacause they used fossil fuel at the first place.

[Zamboro]

@jezuz12345

Actually that's false, the steam turbine in a coal plant averages 35% efficiency, and as high as 60% on newer combined cycle turbines.

[jezuz12345]

@Zamboro gas engines might be 25% efficient, but coal heavy grid station are much less than that.

[Zamboro]

@VulpesVirago

This is a poor use of that electricity because of the low efficiency of storing the air and using it in the engine, but electric vehicles pollute less than gas vehicles even when charged from a coal heavy grid. This is because they use vastly less energy per mile driven, and thus require less fossil fuels to be consumed on a per mile basis. Electric motors are 85-90% efficient versus gas engines which range from 15-25% efficient, and lithium batteries are 99~% efficient charging