I used to watch Beyond2000 all the time when I was in Air Force barracks/dorms… I had no idea the show was still around.
The embedded clip is about two different projects to power small vehicles with compressed air.
Interesting idea, I can easily picture small loaders and golf-carts going this route and just using a local compressor to refuel.
I know this is just a transfer of energy from running a compressor, but mobile power has been a particularly vexing problem; and this would appear to solve that problem in smaller vehicles and devices that have been hard to store energy in the past (other than fossil fuels). I can imagine air powered chain saws, lawn mowers, snow-throwers… I hell of a lot less mess than gasoline powered ones. Automobiles are getting big enough that I am unsure that compressed air is the most efficient energy storage, and city busses can clearly use other energy storage methods that simply don’t fit in a car or lawn mower.
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