I like your ideas, and I like your taste in automobiles. I'm more of a diesel man myself; my mechanical diesels will last forever. I suppose that doesn't make me very green, but old diesels can run on biofuels, so I guess there's some potential there.
•Compressed air cools as it leaves the chamber. This means in hot hellholes like Arizona your car will cool you and the general area for free. Some early designs even had a picnic compartment after the exhaust to keep your food cold. Of course this means you want gas for frozen places and compressed air for hot places.
•No noise, no real emissions besides cold.
Nowadays there are a few companies working on compressed air cars and compressed air motorcycles, but who knows how much success they will see.
Imagine being able to flank roving government warlords with a fleet of silent air powered dirtbikes.
I'm in. Can I make methanol at home?
You lost me at "Green RINO".
Is it even possible to get a car that's not a computer anymore? Once my old Forester dies, what's a basic / analogue guy like me to do?
I like your ideas, and I like your taste in automobiles. I'm more of a diesel man myself; my mechanical diesels will last forever. I suppose that doesn't make me very green, but old diesels can run on biofuels, so I guess there's some potential there.
I once read about compressed air cars and became a big fan. Here's some dudes discussing it generally.
https://forums.aaca.org/topic/396661-compressed-air-powered-automobile-do-any-exist/
They are a popular idea in permaculture for a few reasons.
•A few compressed air passive gathering devices have been developed, most popularly the Canadian trompe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
•Vehicles can be very light with few moving parts
•Compressed air cools as it leaves the chamber. This means in hot hellholes like Arizona your car will cool you and the general area for free. Some early designs even had a picnic compartment after the exhaust to keep your food cold. Of course this means you want gas for frozen places and compressed air for hot places.
•No noise, no real emissions besides cold.
Nowadays there are a few companies working on compressed air cars and compressed air motorcycles, but who knows how much success they will see.
Imagine being able to flank roving government warlords with a fleet of silent air powered dirtbikes.