Air Car

Select · Post by **Select** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:37 am

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Air Car Video

Post by **Ddrak** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:50 pm

Interesting. Not sure how comfortable I'd be with some 5000psi compressed air tanks sitting right under my butt though...

Dd

Embar Angylwrath · Post by **Embar Angylwrath** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:05 pm

Ddrak wrote:Interesting. Not sure how comfortable I'd be with some 5000psi compressed air tanks sitting right under my butt though...

Dd

You'd have to ask Tax and Jaro about that.. they (and Select, according to some of the older posts) may have insight on how to deal with high pressure force on the bunger.

Select · Post by **Select** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:38 pm

Oh please. My ass is a virgin and I intend to keep it that way.

Garrdor · Post by **Garrdor** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:11 am

Interesting. Not sure how comfortable I'd be with some 5000psi compressed air tanks sitting right under my butt though...

What makes it any different than having a highly flammible liquid sitting inside your veichle, waiting to be ruptured - to ignite and burn your seatbelted ass alive (in the event of an accident) ?

Tarfang_Trubasher · Post by **Tarfang_Trubasher** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:35 am

The air tanks are carbon fiber, so they'd just split lengthwise. A video on the zeropollution.us web site (car's manufacturer) touches on this as a safety feature. There's also a part of the video that shows an air powered go-cart pulling a full sized pickup truck from stop.

Apparently, these cars have been in prototype since the late-90's, and have been driven successfully in France & India.

Guess it took all the "green" stuff to get clearance into the States. *conspiracy face*

-TF

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