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The Air Car Nears Completion
torok writes "According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."
According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air.
Well, if you eat a lot of Tandoori, this is a great use for that compressed air.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Did half-life 2 teach us NOTHING about the dangers of compressed air cannisters?
this looks like the ultimate in vaporware, an as yet unavailable vehicle and runs on "air" might as well run on magic aether or unicorn blood. you can't even see air. pfft.
Seriously, how many brilliant inventions have we heard of lately, and how many of those vanish just days after being announced?
What about the far greater number of brillant inventions that vanish before we ever hear about them in the first place?!?!
If you are going to play the paranoid lunatic, aim high. There is no market for half-assed tin-hattery.
More like
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2-3 hundred kilometres - that's long downslope.
Squirrel!
It's India, you've probably got three or four kids pedaling stationary bikes to charge the tank.
So could Washington, D.C. Plenty of hot air there!
Those are some bodacious Tatas.
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Damn. I read that headline and thought my flying car was almost ready.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
AirCar!!!!
2007!?
But, where are my frck_n moonboots?!!?
If you are going to play the paranoid lunatic, aim high. There is no market for half-assed tin-hattery.
But if there's a market for half-tinned ass-hattery, then I'm set!
The enemies of Democracy are
Pesky kids let the air out of your tires, just fill em back up with your fuel... or run out of fuel, fill from your tires.
This will cut into his oil profits.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
If you have ever been to India you can see that this is infact a great idea.
Yeah, but I really would have thought the Dutch would have come up with this idea first. The Dutch have been powering their Ovens with compressed gas for years.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
You are obviously not paranoid enough.
Yes, and it's a good idea to embiggen your vocabulary at the same time.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Smug Alert!
Love sees no species.
... was just granted the distribution rights to compressed air in the USA. They will sell you enough compressed air to go 200 km for $60.00.
Do these things go faster than light? It's the only way I can explain the fact that the first post is modded redundant.
Cogito, ergo sig.
It used a skateboard and common cans of whipped cream. It never did propel me anywhere, but it was delicious.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Head on over to USPTO.gov, and show me the invention that solves the energy crisis.
How about this?
You just need to find a way to harness the cat's kinetic energy in a usable form.
A legparnasom tele van angolnaval.
I need to embetter my dictionary then, I thought that embroaden was a perfectly cromulent word!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
lift it, wait for the earth to rotate, put it back down.. you can probably pick up some regenerative braking energy on the way down.
More to the point, Exxon and Mobil would probably corner the market on distilled water and water distribution firms in a matter of days. Then start telling you how their water has a higher concentration of the wonder element, H2Go, and how it keeps your tank cleaner.
Oh great. So my 20 mile commute to work will take 1 minute and 9 seconds - but it'll take me 23 hours, 58 minutes and 51 seconds to get home again. :|
I think it might be easier to move closer to work and bike.
((Commute ~ 20 miles / Earth's circumference ~ 24900 miles) * (24 hours * 60 minutes that it takes the earth to rotate)) = time in minutes for my commute.
;-)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Also known as a duvet-hovercraft conversion.
Just put in a heating element and power it off the battery. Or run the motor a little bit.
"How to use energy to make stuff hot" is hardly an unsolved problem in engineering.
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Indian strees are swamped with three-wheeled-pull-start-lawnmower-powered Rickshaws and the air is noxious
I'll take the job. Potato salad!
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
So then you turn a valve and the cold air doesn't come in anymore. You fucking idiot.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.