[permaculture] more air car Re: skeptical but curious - 376.59 mpg

L. Santoyo santoyo at earthflow.com
Mon Feb 25 23:33:37 EST 2008


I still want to have faith in the historical and newly emerging technologies
of the compressed air car...
L. Santoyo

Check this out-

Some Compressed Air Transportation History:

http://www.theaircar.com/acf/air-cars/compressed-air-history.html

BusinessWeek miniC.A.T. article:

http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/mar2007/bw20070319_949435.htm?chan=search

Some Visuals -couple different designs -one from France -one from Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4



On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM, <lbsaltzman at aol.com> wrote:

> Some of the mileage gain comes from good driving habits.? Recently I took
> my 1995 Volvo which was rated at 24 mpg on the highway when it was new (it
> had over 150,000 miles on it.) I drove at 55 avoided fast starts and passing
> other cars. I was able to get slightly in excess of 30 miles per gallon.?
> Some Prius drivers in Japan get 99 miles per gallon.? In Europe there is an
> eco-driving movement. if we were just to do some simple steps, we could slow
> down green house gas emissions from cars significantly.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul wheaton <paul at richsoil.com>
> To: permaculture <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 1:48 pm
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] skeptical but curious - 376.59 mpg
>
>
>
> It sounds like that sort of contest has gone on since the 70's and
> some vehicles have managed to get better than 1000mpg:
>
>
> http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/448_0/alternative-energy/376-mpg
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, David Glober <david.glober at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > "how does 376.59 miles per gallon  sound? Makes your Honda Civic hybrid
> look
> Hummeresque, doesn't it?
> >
> >   "That number doesn't come from some manta ray-shaped, wind
> tunnel-vetted
> carbon fiber space car. No, it's from a chop-top, steel-frame 1959 Opel
> T-1
> (think melting jelly bean, but uglier). And the record was set in 1973 in
> a
> contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co."
> >
> >
> >  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/351903_needle20.html
> >
> >
> >
> >  David Glober ~ San Francisco
> >  Recent Permaculture Design Cert Grad
> >  david.glober at yahoo.com
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