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Author Topic: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air  (Read 6560 times)

Jimboot

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Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« on: December 18, 2013, 03:34:50 AM »
I thought you guys may enjoy this. I threw some cash in to help fund it. It was a crowd supported idea. Not kickstarter just a bunch of friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObE4_nMCjE
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Lakes

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2013, 11:26:22 AM »
Wow, impressive!

Put some padding in for the seats and make a kids pedal car version. :)
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gauschor

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2013, 05:13:40 PM »
> "runs on air"

And what drives the pistons? Let me guess: a battery.

Stupid misleading titles.
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Jimboot

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2013, 11:04:37 PM »
no battery just compressed air.
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gauschor

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2013, 06:09:54 PM »
If someone claims to run a car on diesel, I expect it to fully sustain itself on diesel. This works.
If someone claims to have a car running on air I expect it to fully sustain itself on air compression mechanisms. This doesn't work in this case. The source power comes from a battery. So I wouldn't call it "running on air". A misleading title by the inventor, as said.
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Jimboot

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2013, 10:45:02 PM »
Quote from: gauschor on December 19, 2013, 06:09:54 PM
If someone claims to run a car on diesel, I expect it to fully sustain itself on diesel. This works.
If someone claims to have a car running on air I expect it to fully sustain itself on air compression mechanisms. This doesn't work in this case. The source power comes from a battery. So I wouldn't call it "running on air". A misleading title by the inventor, as said.
Mate there IS NO BATTERY - It has a couple of carbon fibre tanks of compressed air.
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gauschor

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Re: Life Size Lego Car Powered By Air
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2013, 06:11:31 PM »
Quote from: Jimboot on December 19, 2013, 10:45:02 PM
Mate there IS NO BATTERY - It has a couple of carbon fibre tanks of compressed air.

I have crawled through dozens of news articles, their website, the youtube video and I haven't found anywhere a single phrase mentioning that tanks with compressed air are used. While this might be true, it's kinda ridiculous that this information is so hard to find and every news article just copies the same useless text from each other.

Anyways, I found a more indepth article about compressed air cars here, with all the explanations I was missing:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7000/

Kinda cool if I might say so. But damn, that was 7 years ago and still no breakthrough...
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