Re: Revolutionary new engine idea... (archive)

I had this idea for a clean, non polluting engine. Instead of using gas combustoin, what if you took high pressuser air compressres (small of course) and plugged one up to its own cylnder, lets say a v8 block. So you would have 8 high pressure air compressors under the hood feeding to each cylinder. They would work the same as the gas would, inserting air in the cylinder pushing it down, cranking the engine. Then a generator or two could be linked to the engine so the compressors could be powered, recurculating the energy. Obviosly a starter motor would be needed. What do you guys think about this, think you could make enough pressure to push the cylinder down like gas could? Maybe I should market this to some technisions, get my name on a new type of engine and make some damn good money, haha!

I just want to say I admire you for thinking about such things. Creating new machines or devices or ways to "build a better mousetrap" can be fun and very rewarding. I'm a bit of an inventor myself (I have 3 patents) and so I know a little about the "inventing process". A word of advice: if you want to make your idea into a marketable product someday, nothing short of passion and perseverence will get you there.

Question: what energy source is powering the generator(s) that recharge the compressed air tanks?

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The generators could be conctd. to a belt, (more) like the airconditioner. Brandon 00:00 10/16/2000 (0)
maybe a small trunk-mounted nuclear reactor lk 23:29 10/15/2000 (0)

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