On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: > One slight correction on this andrew. If you read the tech articles > carefully, they are using compressed air, and as the pressure runs > lower they are using fuel to run a heater to raise the temperature of > the air to raise its compression. The performance is said to remain > constant until some point. OK, so in addition to needing power to fill its cylinder(s), it also burns fuel... sounds like a stopgap to me, like otto/electric hybrids.
-- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand Fossil preparator Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada <goose1047@gmail.com> |
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