{"id":215,"date":"2006-03-22T20:10:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2006-03-22T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T10:14:47","slug":"the-air-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"The air car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting items on this evening&#8217;s <a title=\"Beyond Tomorrow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondtomorrow.com.au\/stories\/ep31\/frenchaircar.html\">Beyond Tomorrow<\/a> TV program was the air car &#8211; two versions: one made in France, the other in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In Nice in France <a title=\"Tha air car\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaircar.com\/\">the air car is about to enter production<\/a> &#8211; capable of up to 110kph, and runs for two hours on AU$2.50 worth of compressed air. So it&#8217;s completely non-polluting (at least no more polluting than the electricity grid), exhausting only air back into the atmosphere. You can fill the tanks in about 20 minutes, or four hours using the onboard compressor by plugging it into your domestic power supply.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"French air car\" onclick=\"doPopup(216);return false;\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Mini_Term.jpg\" \/><a title=\"French air car\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Mini_Term.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French air car\" id=\"image216\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Mini_Term.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <a title=\"Air engine Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engineair.com.au\/\">Australian air car<\/a> uses a specially designed rotary engine, rather than the conventional piston engine of the French one, and was designed by Italian-born Australian Angelo DiPietro &#8211; a former Mercedes rotary engine designer. His engine is designed for use in buggies, forklifts, and even scooters!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if by using a variable valve cutoff this could be converted to steam &#8211; that way the engine could use the expansive properties of steam to get even more power for the size \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting items on this evening&#8217;s Beyond Tomorrow TV program was the air car &#8211; two versions: one made in France, the other in Australia. In Nice in France the air car is about to enter production &#8211; capable of up to 110kph, and runs for two hours on AU$2.50 worth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}