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Compressed air can be
proven to retain 45% of the heat generated by the work of
compression after the compressed air cools to ambient temperature.
(See excerpt from Compressed Air, by Simmons hyperlinked below). |
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This attribute of
compressed air cannot be utilized with electricity. The heat
of generation (of electricity) cannot be captured and stored in
electricity, that heat is simply lost by radiation into the
atmosphere, a very wasteful and useless squandering of usable
energy. |
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Nikola
Tesla said: "Steamers
and trains are still being propelled by the direct application of
steam power to shafts or axles. A much greater percentage of the
heat energy of the fuel could be transformed in motive energy by
using, in place of the adopted marine engines and locomotives,
dynamos driven by specialty designed high-pressure steam or gas
engines, by utilizing the electricity generated for the propulsion.
A gain of 50 to 100 percent, in the effective energy derived from
the fuel could be secured in this manner. It is difficult to
understand why a fact so plain and obvious is not receiving more
attention from engineers."
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A hybrid
compressed-air-electric configuration would bring the best of the
attributes of compressed-air work power and electrical work power
together into a combination that would surpass the wildest
conjectures of those attempting to create energy supply systems with
the two forms of energy separately. |
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A compressed-air-electric hybrid system would work the
same way that "diesel-electric" hybrid power supply systems are used
to provide the motive force for diesel-electric locomotives
presently in general use. |
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Any compressible medium should NOT be used to provide
torque horsepower to drive shafts that are mounted on wheels or used
to power other rotating equipment. Electric motor power is
much more efficient. |
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This truth is readily discernible when observing the
amount of power and tremendous torque applied to the drive wheels of
locomotives to move vast tonnages of freight by the diesel-electric
hybrid configuration. A compressed gas (AIR) is what actually
drives the pistons in a diesel engine, which in turn, rotates an
electricity generator rotor shaft to generate electricity which is
then used to power traction motors connected to the locomotive drive
wheels through a speed reduction transmission.
Electricity cannot be "compressed" and is therefore much better
suited to provide the torque required to rotate the locomotives
wheels against huge weighted load resistance. |
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The "air-car" enthusiasts are going about it in a way
that is doomed to failure, or disappointment, at the least.
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"Compressed-Air-Electric" HYBRID is the configuration
to develop. Compressed-air powering an air-driven generator to
produce the electricity for high-torque applications. |
