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Wes, I would like to know more about this air powered tradition?

Can you say "bullshit"? I knew you could... I don't have to explain Newton's laws, or the principle of conservation of energy, do I?

the air powers a tradition? what?

Deploy OPEC Snipers!

Quick, get Moller on the phone. He'll have one flying by 2012!

Air-Jammer Road-Rammer?

I saw one of these air powered cars on the Discovery Channel a few months ago, only problem is it had to be super light, and would not likely pass crash tesats.

Hot air... Lots and lots of hot air... Like the photo implies, someone is blowing smoke up our skirt.

@Mike the Dog: Need I also mention that an otto cycle (4 stroke) engine will run on compressed air, it won't do so very well. Steam engines are much better suited to using compressed air for motive power. Compressing the air, by necessity, consumes more energy than can be recovered by running the compressed air through a piston engine. Simple physics.

wow that new Panamera camino hybrid is badass

You see? Innovation like this is precisely why Uzbekistan is the undisputed leader of the free world..

Borat did what again?

Monkey meat!!

Well, its in Pravda...makes the Enquirer look like the LA Times.

In Former Soviet Russia...

nevermind.

Attention Tesla Motors: Forget those dang batteries. This is your powertrain!

Actual vaporware. Plus it aint all that hard for the oil companies to make a 15 year old kid from a 2nd world nation "disappear" or "die in an industrial accident".

A whole new dimension to the word, "vaporware."

The Ruskies are behind the curve. I came up with my hydrogen ICE powered perpetual motion car when I was 14.

In Mother Russia, entropy disorganizes YOU.

I call bullshit. its definetely possible to run a piston engine on compressed air, but to have said engine run under its own power indefinetely...

"In this house, we obey the laws of PHYSICS!!!"

Sorry, friction will eventually catch up, perpetual motion no more!

Plus, I invented the wheelying powerwheels with my dad at age 7, I win more!

perpetually i mean...

@Rust-MyEnemy: COTD
@goldplated_j: but according to Aptera (again I mention that I have friends who work there), this is not important.
@Charles_Barrett: Mine's a kilt.
@lemondriver: 2nd COTD

But in all seriousness, this needs to stop. I was just getting over the fact that all the major sports rookies (and actually all 3rd-year players) were younger than me, but at least I could say I was smarter than them. Now this. FIFTEEN? Somebody get this kid a Playstation, and don't let him take it apart (or eat it). Seriously, what am I doing with my life?

Next thing you know, he'll buy TVR...

What a bunch of hot air...

Sorry, I will now go flog myself.

Reminds me of the DEI post awhile back.

Hate to say B.S. but for anyone that watches the show "Future Cars" on HD Theater would know that this is false. On the alternative fuels episode this was actually the last type of car to be shown, by an old guy and not by a 15 year old. They did use compressed air to move the pistons, but at the time you had to use another compressor to put the air in the car as the fuel. They were of course considering making the car have the capabilities to compress it's own air so it would never have to refuel.

It seems like the whole story belongs to an e-mail saying:
My name is Mr. Maruf Karimov a 15 years old from glorious nation of Uzbekistan. I need your hope to get engine to go on auto markets of American and European to sell. I just need bank account access in you country of living to make glorious engine a reality for auto markets. You will get prize for work of sum of $5 million American dollar or euro. Can you help make engine for benefit of Uzbekistan with your bank?

Well, see, to start it, and keep it running, you have to pick up a new hooker at least every 35 meters, and have them blow like their life depended on it.

On the plus-side, we'll transition to a crack-rock economy as opposed to an oil-barrel economy like we have now.

Poor Uzbekistan bastard. He has an American cousin that invented the internet.

I lol'd

This is the dude that invented that exhaust system that went directly into the intake that you guys posted a while back, right? This is his zero emissions plan?

@JayP71: LOL yeah, that was a hoot

Actually, considering the earth's atmosphere is "compressed" by gravity you could fill the tank back up to about 1 bar pressure in theory.

Of course, that wouldn't really be enough to get you anywhere quickly...

And oh yeah, the back pressure on the exhaust would be about 1 bar as well.

Whoops.

Anybody wanna buy some beachfront property in Arizona?

Lutz has been powered by hot air for years - maybe he's taking this hybrid business seriously. Let's have a competition to guess which end the exhaust clips to.

beach front in Arizona, sweet! can I get the perpetual motion machine there too?

There is such a thing called friction, ever heard of it?

Shenanigans!

Its the William Hung of engineering...

Everybody loves the underdog.

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

No perpetual motion shenanigans here, after all the design calls for hydrocarbons to be combusted. Basically, the kid has "invented" a supercharger. Whoop-dee-doo.

@Dr. Spaceman: LOL! Air-Jammer Road-Rammer! Ah, those were the days... I wonder if I've still got that thing somewhere...

There should be a law, that if you build your own zero-emession vehicle, whether imaginary engine over here, or batteries, you should be able to drive without tax, inspection, hov, tolls, or other costs. Maybe a nice insurance incentive would be nice too. You would see A shit load of ranger pickups with a bed load of lithium ion batteries flying down the HOV lane... sorry, bong hits, ya know...

Ah yes, the world famous perpetual motion machine.... by the way i have a bridge for sale cheap.

Rosie O'Donnell has had one of these for years...oh wait...this is a story about her.

I'm calling BS on this one. Same reason you can't have a self charging electric car.

@abgwin: Actually, Borat is from Kazakhstan, which neighbors those "assholes" in uzbekistan.

Yes, bow down to your Uzbekistan overlords! Piteous fools! Oh wait, air blowing out an exhaust to power a car engine, they already have that, it's called a turbocharger.
Hmm gonna have to see what this research brings before I buy into something that defies all laws of physics and every other thing. If it makes cars more efficient, then so be it, good job. As far as perpetual motion anything, I'll pass until it's a done deal.

Hey I have my son playing with my air jammer 3 wheeler, still works!