{"id":288,"date":"2006-05-11T02:23:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T02:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T00:02:04","slug":"compressed-air-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/compressed-air-cars-288","title":{"rendered":"Compressed air cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2 very promising inventions that use compressed air as the energy source. The first, from France, drives a piston engine (which does not require any ignition of a carbon-base fuel). <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image289\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/dipietro_engine.jpg\" alt=\"Di Pietro engine\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><br \/>\nThe second, which seems more promising, is from Australia and it drives a light (13kg) and simple rotary engine.<\/p>\n<p>The compressed air is held in tanks made of carbon fibre. Why? If the tanks are damaged in an accident, a metal-based tank would explode and cause a lot of damage. Carbon fibre will split and cause little damage. besides, it is light and very strong.<br \/>\n<img id=\"image290\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/dipietro_vehicle.jpg\" alt=\"Di Pietro vehicle\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a small vehicle powered by the Di Pietro rotary engine.<\/p>\n<p>The current high price of oil means these alternative energy source proposals can get a serious hearing - and the oil companies have less impact on the US & other high polluting governments.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image291\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/airengine.jpg\" alt=\"air engine\" \/><br \/>\nThe inventor, Di Pietro and his engine.<\/p>\n<p>There is more info on similar engines at <a href=\"http:\/\/quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca\">Quasiturbine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the alternatives to gas guzzling cars!<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/compressed-air-cars-288#comments\" id=\"comms\">6 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2 very promising inventions that use compressed air as the energy source. The first, from France, drives a piston engine (which does not require any ignition of a carbon-base fuel). The second, which seems more promising, is from Australia and it drives a light (13kg) and simple rotary engine. The compressed air is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}