Bongo Fury

Bob wrote:Or it could be driven by a bloomin' great wheel:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_stora

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

Ahh Hmm...

You've spent too many years singing rugby songs Bob

-coming from a party whose leader flies to the arctic just so he can pose with a husky and tell us all vote blue get green,and then goes back on policy over extra runways,and approves destroying field and woodlands for a high speed train, -(that lets face it most of us wont be able to afford to use)

The use of resources,the ingredients of plastic,used for mouldings etc -does not necessarilly make new cars more green than using up our old ones, yes they use less fuel and potentially cleaner fuel but the impact has to be offset against the creation process.

Whatever the incentive i,m betting it isnt green.

mikeonb4c wrote:

Bob wrote:Or it could be driven by a bloomin' great wheel:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_stora

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

Ahh Hmm...

You've spent too many years singing rugby songs Bob

I swear I was only looking at this from the engineer's point of view, he told me before he died...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/992431.stm

http://www.guynegre.net/introduction-eng.php

http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/guynegre.html

scanner wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/992431.stm

http://www.guynegre.net/introduction-eng.php

http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/guynegre.html

Very interesting scanner. Didn't we start following this one a few years back? I'd still be interested to know what efficiency loss results from adiabatic expansion (i.e. pressure drop as bottle contents cool during release if gas). Of course regenerative braking using compression of air back into the bottles would offset this

I think one of the advantages for Mexico City is the greater pressure differential as it is at quite an altitude.

If the air tank is compressed to the same pressure there as at sea level the "fuel capacity" should be greater.

scanner wrote:I think one of the advantages for Mexico City is the greater pressure differential as it is at quite an altitude.

If the air tank is compressed to the same pressure there as at sea level the "fuel capacity" should be greater.

Though of course more work will have to be done to get the bottles up to pressure?