Sorry my bad

yeh seen a training film where a cylinder has gone through a brick wall in a controlled experiment. There has to be sufficient "energy in one of those to use it like a NOS charge

Even if its possible Im sure a subsidury of an oil company would buy the patents and store them away so we can all keep paying inflated fuel prices until buying compressed air is a commodity

What about regenerative braking based compressed air... when you brake, some that engergy goes into compressing air. That compressed air is stored and goes into forced induction as discussed.

I like the symmetry...

The harder & more often you brake the harder & more often you can accelerate.

Imagine if the air compressor itself was the engine...

But I'm sure smarter minds than mine have thought about all this before.

_________________
"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

You would still need to supply additional fuel as that's where the power comes from, so you'd use more fuel. Like nitrous, turbos and superchargers.

Having come a cropper with my version (Couldn't get the cold fusion reactor controller to work with Windows Vista beta), I've decided to fit one of those "flamethrower" exhausts (Spark plug up the kazoo) to make my car look like it's going faster.

I told ya cold fusion wouldn't work - you need at least luke warm fusion occuring to even raise an eybrow

wot about a compressor of a truck mount it of ya drive wheel and then make a wigwom for a goose's bridal to allow the compressed air to be shot into the back of ya carbi and also have a tube stuck into ya bum (but you must eat a vindaloo first ) to harness the power of ya rectum
makka

_________________
Anonymous moderation means the agro that is built up towards the mods isn't aimed at an individual (fewer "Makk" attacks). Less stress for mods means less moderator "retirements".

This is a very old idea and has been used in steam trains.

Around working mills like steel, timber or sugar mills (especially in India) they would drive specially constructed engines up to a steam boiler in the yard where they would take on steam at roughly 300 PSI in to a pressure container the size of the original boiler. This was heavily insulated to prevent heat loss, and the stored pressure was enough for 3 or 4 hours of working for the fat controller.

It was very efficient as the steam was generated in only one place, and lots cheaper than having to refuel all these engines with coal or oil, and they didn't have to carry the weight of the coal around either.

There's nothing new under the sun anymore.

_________________
SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.