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A French company has made a prototype car that runs on compressed air. The range is 200Km on one fill up with a top speed of around 65MPH.
They were discussing this on the radio and some guy from one of the oil companies poo-poohed it by saying, "It's not environmentally friendly at all- the electricity to power the compressor will have been generated by a gas or coal fired power station."
Why not use wind power to drive the compressors? Water wheels? I bet the dino fuel lobby are either crapping themselves or waving a big cheque at the designers to bury it. At 1.5 euros a tankfull it sounds attractive. Maybe people weren't joking when thay said they will tax fresh air next. I wonder what the fuel tax will be?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2281011.stm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/air-car1.htm
They were discussing this on the radio and some guy from one of the oil companies poo-poohed it by saying, "It's not environmentally friendly at all- the electricity to power the compressor will have been generated by a gas or coal fired power station."
Why not use wind power to drive the compressors? Water wheels? I bet the dino fuel lobby are either crapping themselves or waving a big cheque at the designers to bury it. At 1.5 euros a tankfull it sounds attractive. Maybe people weren't joking when thay said they will tax fresh air next. I wonder what the fuel tax will be?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2281011.stm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/air-car1.htm