compressed air

Moteur AirCar

AP/MSNBC: Car runs on compressed air, but will it sell? Covered earlier this year (with more depth) over @ gizmag, the little engine that maybe should powers the MDI AirCar. Will it sell? Who knows? After more than thirty years on the, um, "back burner", all sorts of interesting and fantastic inventions are emerging onto the public stage. [Image: TheAirCar. H/T Cho]. :: :: :: Glen Chapman/AFP: Smart cars will watch roads while drivers' minds drift Cutting to the chase, the operative phrase is "we have the technology". The problem? The "technology" lives inside individual transporters, that move from place to place powered (mostly) by six hundred pound pieces of metal, that consume dead dinosaurs as fuel. And that's "advanced"? As the saying goes, some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.