Electric
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19.85 Everything in it's right place Breathin in your disgrace Try…
A Flock of Seagulls I've got information 'something you should hear Electrical m…
A.M.C & Six Blade Let go of everything you have inside Let it show, you…
Alex M.O.R.P.H. Presents INDIGO What are all these words? What are all these words…
Alice Jemima burn them cigarettes and all those broken things we have our…
Alina Baraz Darker than the ocean, deeper than the sea You got everythin…
Amanda Your energy's magnetic You fill my heart with static When yo…
Andy Cypress Move in the city like Diddy I came on the 4th…
Anniela Electric Electric Verse 1 I feel your naked skin and my ad…

Anzi Destruction Finjo ser invisível Pra não ter que te encarar Afogo na pisc…
Arin Ray Right at the edge, how does it feel? Right 'fore we…
Atlas Genius From the corner of your eye Down to the trap…
autocorrect It's 4am and I am sitting on the edge of…
B-BoY ProjecT Electric car On roads so dark To change the end Rewrite the …
B.R.E.T.T. Ahhhahhha Ouuuouuu Me feeling electric fire When she look my…
Bass Drum Of Death When I destroy It's my own town electric When I destroy It's…
Billy Otto City Lights A big sky Only you and I Its like a dream I…
Birch & Bright I got a feeling You can't tell me that it's wrong This…
Blue Herons One, two, three, four, five, six I feel the energy lift cnd…
Blush Ooh Woah A sensitivity In every part of me Like a shock…
Bones B-B-B-bright lights flashing and the speakers are loud This …
Boy Harsher It′s electric Where you find it Then you touch it But it fal…
Brett Close your eyes And drive on down Bathed in white I see you…
Cassiøpeia My heart's beating faster You're the one I'm after Think I f…
Chasing August It's like a knife in the back It's like we're going…
Consequence Feat. Kanye West You got to [Chorus] Relax yourself or we'll whack ya down R…
Cōrt You don't seem to mind When I am falling behind You go…
Crane A.K. Electric power Electric Let's get electric Electric disco, a…
D-Vei This gone get you mellow Said it's 7:48 On the way And I'm…
D. Reichhardt and Max Berghaus and Stefan Hansen If you got to believe Believe in something Matter of fact pu…
Daeo When everybody in the room Is dancing on the razorblade It…
Deer Tick I need you to make me proud I need electric to…
Discotek DJ Combo & Sander-7 Yesterday, we were doing so great But, I kinda misplaced all…
Dj Ray A.K.A. Joy-T-Suko WHICH WAY, TO GO EAST OR WEST? WHICH ONE? WHICH…
DJ-Eq It's Electric! You can't see it It's electric! You…
Dnc Electric Electric Feels So Electric Feels So Electric Yes…
Dossey Tie my heart to an arrow Shoot it up, deep into…
Dream Evil God damn their electric rock You're in for a metal shock L…
E-mission It’s gone dark in this modern town Christmas Eve so only…
Electric I'm sorry I was around so much You just need…
Eml (YOUR TOUCH HEALS) I feel alive dripping soaked by the rain …
Eva Celia We started off as friends I wasn't looking for love My sky…
Föllakzoid feat. J. Spaceman It’s the night before Christmas And you say you can’t sleep …
G&D This gone get you mellow Said it's 7:48 On the way And I'm…
G&D Georgia Anne Muldrow Declaime Niggas see me out at Nicks wonder wat I paid Just…
Gareth Gates Her cigarette butt blocked my path I didn't smoke but she…
Go Back to the Zoo There is a song I wanna sing I don't know where…
Godlike & Electric I'm sorry I was around so much You just need…
GS Megaphone Plug me in Holy power shooting through my vains Here…
Hablot Brown [feat. Floyd Fuji] I feel it now love It started to kick in, hey Working…
Hallowed Hearts Past the broken glass, of a life long passed The memories…
heroes and underdogs Feat. Tay Jardine So let me get this straight, I said So…
Holy Mother You live at night There's seven ways to make a dollar When…
Hunter & the Bear pass me that bowl of soap hands are dirty did…
Hunter Brothers Every place Every time Every day You and I Got the sparks fl…
Insom There’s a light bulb dangling from string It’s slowly swayin…
Itch-E & Scratch-E It's gone dark in this modern town Christmas Eve so only…
J-Weezy It’s the night before Christmas And you say you can’t sleep …
Jack Strify feat. Bonnie Strange Love is a lie We're wasting time It's over now Without the s…
Jaden Man I met her on Monday Went on Twitter, had her…
Jaden Smith Man I met her on Monday That's how I get it…
Jaden Smith feat. Willow Man I met her on Monday Went on Twitter, had her…
Jake Whiskin Don't know why this is how we spend our time The…
Jane & The Boy Soul, soul needs more I need your touch you're electrical gi…
Jayden Bartels & Max & Harvey I'm walking down to the smoke store Gonna get me a…
Jayms Girl you're electric the way you move, the way you…
Jennings Couch I’m my own OG store I do my own decor Look at…
jeshi VERSE ONE: LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS YEAH YOU MAKE SPRITE GOT…
Jonas Lilies in the garden wild and blue In the morning waking…
Joy T-Suko WHICH WAY, TO GO EAST OR WEST? WHICH ONE? WHICH…
Katy Perry Electric In the dark, when you feel lost Wanna be the best,…
Kelvin Krash & Jeshi VERSE ONE: LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS YEAH YOU MAKE SPRITE GOT…
Khalid Alina Baraz Darker than the ocean, deeper than the sea You got everythin…
Lauren Sanderson Speak to me sweet, I'm trying Don't run away from I I…
Leila K Electric power (Electric) Let's get electric Electric dis…
Lisa Scott-Lee Touch Me I’m Electric Verse 1: Take me out of your pocket P…
Luscious Jackson What do you feel when you look into my eyes…
m.o.r.p.h. pres. everest What are all these words? What are all these words…
Madison Watkins It's your eyes burning deep in my soul Can't deny everybody…
Madrugada Pack your bags, run away Along the freeway, out of town Wher…
Manic Drive Activate and kill the darkness Flip the switch and crank the…
Manic Drive feat. Trevor McNevan 1] Activate and kill the darkness Flip the switch and crank …
Manic Drive feat. Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch Activate and kill the darkness Flip the switch and crank the…
Matt Pond PA fell through the floor it opened up i'm on my…
Maverick Hey girl, let me treat you right, ‘Cus times a’wastin’ and…
MDFMK Float flushed, flowing like a river Try to suffer this calam…
Melody Club I've got my finger on the phone I never thought it'd…
mere_bits Falling into better places Your scar needs retracing Cause m…
Miki Ratsula Your skin pressed against mine covered in sheets our bodies …
MIKNNA Tonight, we could lose control we own the night We could…
Moon Fake memories Remain in the dark They twist and turn with ev…
mr. california [Verse 1] I can see myself in you The way I…
mr. nice Across the storm Cold wants to be with warm Spontaneous, wit…
Mr. Rust [Verse 1] I can see myself in you The way I…
N-Type Well it's another year, but it's still the same I try…
Network! Crete Island たどりついた船は真夜中の Emerald Gibraltar to Piraieve Lim…
Nicholson Electric Minds I have this lonely vision of you standing in…
Nightcore Fanatics Yes thats my favorite girl Every time we get together it…
Noise Therapy Stare, stare down the aisle Beady eyes with a crooked smile …
Olivia Newton-John An unsuspecting night The music wasn't dynamite I wasn't thi…
Omarion Go head from the top! Yeah. Ye! Turn my music up (Ha) Is…
P.R.O.U.D. What are all these words? What are all these words…
pablø I need you to answer babe I need you to be…
Pete & The Pirates The tears come out Your restless eyes I'm something about …
Prettyman Tristan These tears stain the wood Like cups and condensation I a…
Pushwagon I been on a mean streak I've drawn some heat I've been…
PVT I left my heart on the railroad track It s still…
Rein Electric Electric power L - listen up now E is electric I-L-…
Robyn Electric It's electric It's a natural high Electric We don't…
S.D Unrequited love and me Were jailed as one my only guarantee …
Sarayu So electric I bring the ocean like Pacific This is more than…
Shawn Desman Uh Yeah Whadup girl Check it Girl girl girl, you know I bee…
Shawn Desman | www.Marvin-Vibez.in When a part of me says goodbye I found it strange…
SHINee Yeah Yeah yeah 관찰하고 분석해 널 아름다워 Yeah 널 더 알고 싶어 예측들을 벗어난…
Shock When the blueness follows evening And the darkness takes co…
Sinisstar Picket fences in decline Out the way I'm coming up…
Sound Effects Fx and Soundtrack I feel alive and out of breath As I lay pressed…
Stalgia Quit fucking with my mind Your baby girl You made me feel…
Starboy (Yeah, yeah) (Loving how you dey rotate this time) (This kin…
Status I have been there I've been seen there And I keep going…
Story of the Running Wolf I saw the future and I closed my eyes but it…
T.D.X. Do you remember Late last December Your Jeep ascending Rolli…
T.S.O.L. Slide down the banister You know I've got a brand new…
Tab-One & Sinopsis Up here in space I'm looking down on you My lasers trace Eve…
Teen Infection spreads throughout my mouth I'm shaking I can't ca…
The All-Girl Boys Choir Millions wander around this place Bewildered wonder on their…
The Analog Affair So let the light in Show me the colors of love I'm…
The Church Alone, at the end of the day As I stand before…
The Clause Electric There′s a spark between you and me baby Put other …
The DNC Electric Electric Feels So Electric Feels So Electric Yes…
The Men Spit in her song We might not hear too long…
The Prototypes I hope that you're the one If not, you are the…
The Sewergrooves I′m in need of something good I don't want you baby…
The W.I.N.K.S. What are all these words? What are all these words…
Timecop1983 & Josh Dally My hearts on fire every time you're are near The electric…
Tomorrow Is Lost There's no mistaking it's the real thing I am so electrifie…
Tristan Prettyman These tears stain the wood Like cups and condensation I am…
TØXIC Tell me who do you love man? Tell me what…
Various Artists They say Thomas Edison He's the man to get us into…
Voodoo Deepest azure crystalline Her eyes upon you weaken your spin…
We Architects Tell me where it is that you wanna go To…
Why Not Y-NOT I Can't escape the show I know you know…
Wires & Lights The more the resistance, the bigger the screen A colder insi…
X-beats Electric love Drives me wild Hot flesh burns And tastes like…

yeule The only thing reminding me to stay alive is The scars…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Mike80528

34w

Red Barchetta by Rush in 1981:

"Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase"

(imagining a future where combustion engines were outlawed...)

All comments from YouTube:

New Mind

35w↑7

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Andy Lewis

35w↑1

George Medhurst was FRENCH?? 😳

Mike80528

34w

Michael Lenczewski

34w

Woah dude... We know you're smart, but you need to make your content more accessible.

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Kevin Farlie

33w↑5

It was certainly unexpected to see a professor from my faculty featured in a youtube video on a fairly large channel, and the first time I have heard of this research. Congratulations to Dr. Dincer and Mr. Evrin! I hope our UOIT will better communicate its research throughout our community since this makes me curious what other exceptional research has been done, and simply not well publicized.

Hyric89

35w↑65

Seems like an energy storage technology that could work as solar energy storage in hot climates. Compressed air could be stored at room temperature and when needed, compressed air could drive a turbine-generator or engine-generator to generate electricity. The cold air would be useful for space cooling. So a combined power and cooling system.

Vaclav Pasak

34w↑5

I love to see people under technology videos are always giving ideas how to improve or where would be the usage of the technology. Seems like the purest of the communities with only interest to improve humanity. I hope it always stay the same. It is creative brainstorming to read thru comment section.

andronclock

34w↑2

That's the best concept i have read on YT in years! Great thinking!

Shogun Autoworks

33w

Chill the air lines between the compressor and the tank. Fill it with chilled air to max or regulated pressure... Then even with compressor off and air being used, the temp rise would help regulate it further for longer between compressor cycles.

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Warped Perception

34w↑21

I haven't seen one of your videos in a minute, I've seen a ton of these compressed-air cars used in India and Mexico.

Reinoud

34w↑1

Really? Wow, you have some links or photos?

New Mind

34w↑2

Same. Glad you’re back. Been missing those over the top builds!

Ryan Wong

32w↑1

It's not compressed air..it's compressed natural gas (CNG) and the engine is still ICE.

Bruce Williams

35w↑37

This is a great video. I could see a lot of other uses for this. Just thinking about the heat recovery from phase changes opens a lot of design possibilities for all kinds of systems. Really well researched! Lately there have been few videos that make me think "oh, I could use this here or there." in a cascade of thoughts on other systems. This is one of the very few videos I have shared and saved. Thank you for restoring YoTub's relevance a bit!

David Elliott

34w

Thermal efficiency kills this as an energy storage medium. Batteries are better than 90% (possibly over 95%). The additional costs are quickly recouped.

Vincero Alpha

34w↑2

@David Elliott He goes over the shortcomings and the current solutions to sit shortcomings in the video. Also he goes over the concept that companies are currently testing that can even have better energy storage in the battery counterparts. Way to show that you didn’t understand the video or watch the whole thing.

Simon Masters

34w↑2

@Vincero Alpha totally agree with you, but Mr Elliott feels he knows better.

Vincero Alpha

34w↑1

@Simon Masters 🤣😂 thanks

Igor Macário

34w↑14

Peugeot-Citroën really dived into the project with the HybridAir concept, which went on years of development and research until they pull the plug due to the rise of the battery hybrids.

The system would function like a 48 volt mild hybrid, keeping the car in motion at stable speeds and at low speeds, making possible the 1.2 3cyl gasoline engine to shut off. Very ingenious

Colleen Forrest

33w↑1

I've been following MDIs work on this. Its a great concept.

One thing we have got to get over is this idea of "most efficient". Nothing can come to market unless its more efficient than what's out there now.

We need to be looking at "efficent enough". Giving the available space, weight, or whatever actual constraints you have (not the slick constraints that make your eyes buldge and you say "oooo" too, but the real constraints), is the given solution efficent enough to solve the problem. A lot more of these devices, if the would just hit the market sooner could get the capital the need to advance the technology.

Tom Bixby

35w↑8

Thanks for sharing your videos, was nice to see an update on this technology. Along time ago when this tech was experiencing a resurgence I pondered if this might be a good substitute for energy in lawn care equipment. Whenever mowing large lawns I would notice the mower deck would get quite hot. In retrospect I’m pondering if my spindle bearings needed some work, but at the time I was convinced that it was from all the friction involved in the cutting, chopping and blowing process and then pondered if the mower deck was made with integrated cooling channels similar to rocket nozzles than maybe the air could be preheated by running thru the mower deck and besides boosting power input to the motor would offer cooling for the operator. 😂

Alvin Norin

35w

😂🎉

Cj

34w↑1

You might be on to something

yes pineapple pizza

35w

I get super excited whenever I see a new video from you. You always make excellent videos. This one was no exception! I hope compressed air makes a comeback! Thanks for the video :)

Hexlattice

35w↑6

Thanks for introducing me to this technology and its challenges that need to be overcome to make it at all viable. This sort of content is why I love your channel

DiabolicDoug

35w↑35

I love this idea as an energy storage medium. Direct hydropneumatic or wind driven compression would be awesome. You could either forget about electricity production all-together, or only convert the energy from compressed air to electricity on demand.

master shooter64

35w↑10

Yes but you need energy to compress the air so you can't compleletey forget about electricity production

Ted Archer

35w↑2

Won't work because of thermodynamics

mungewell

35w

Would be great for short term storage/load leveling applications, compressed air tanks at turbine sites could store excess power optimizing the production and use of the connected grid. Although some 'danger' involved with compressed air, it's is at least environmentally .safe'.

Vincero Alpha

34w↑1

@Ted Archerway to not elaborate on your point and show that you didn’t watch the whole video

Murray Madness

34w↑7

Been thinking about this for decades now (mostly liquid nitrogen), which is a perfect fuel for my solar powered coastal cruising boat, since it does not need high torque and can use solar while sitting at port to charge up its tanks for a prolonged time before heading off to the next port, all using zero fuel. Tankage provides floatation and structure to the vessel. A total design win, yet nobody has yet built such a boat and I can't spend my time on it these days.

Bob B.

34w

I will rent your nitrogen powered boat

T0k4m4K

33w↑1

How do you liquify the nitrogen with a solar panel? that's extemely energy intensive

Murray Madness

33w↑2

@T0k4m4K A small cryocooler like they use on cell towers and spaceships. Just takes a LONG time to produce enough to power a boat for 100 miles, but you can use both the solar AND the LN storage to move the boat. 3kw of solar.

NackDSP

35w↑8

Great video. The most popular way to fail with a new technology is to design a weird looking three wheel car that looks unstable and unsafe. I suspect the price of batteries and electric motors going so low made this option look expensive.

FranciscoJavier32423

33w

I didn't know how inefficient the compress air can be, I always asume that was a good idea especially for wind turbines, but the heat thing is complicated. It looks like that kind of car will have more moving parts than a usual car, electricity is much simpler

Dirty White Boy

35w↑22

As a lowly compressor tech, I just shake my head at the ways these engineers keep me employed.

I giggle at the thought of seeing one of these tugging around an old portable 185 just to keep running. That makes as much sense as a new lightning stuck on the side of the road getting recharged from a generator.

bowez9

35w↑5

Nevermind how energy intensive compressing air is. For industrial use it's the single worst way to use power.

St0RM33

35w↑2

meng here...yes it's a stupid concept..i still wonder who invests money on these thing..then i take a look at kickstarter and then i say people are stupid

domitry jobby

34w↑3

Maybe as big land based storage with compressed air can make sense since it's much easier to store the heat energy but for moving vehicles it doesn't seem to make that much sense since to store heat energy is impossible in small volumes and you end up with very complex systems. I wonder why all the promises or range and efficiency never seem to materialise

Michael Foort

32w↑1

Its good to see this older technology is being advanced at the research level

Turning Point

34w↑2

I remember getting excited about MDI and air compressed transport. As soon as I realized how quickly batteries were developing the future became obviously electric.

fluffy

34w↑9

I remember seeing a thing about compressed-air personal vehicles in the early 1990s, and even then it was something that was on its second or third try. Interesting how this idea keeps coming around. Maybe someday it'll stick.

fraser crone

34w

Its because other technology's emerge or improve that can eliminate some of the drawbacks that made this energy storage and propulsion less adequate in the past.

shawn d

34w

Not likely. Very inefficient

Wayne

32w

Tomy brought a tou out in the 80s , hoom dorm !!

Ed Wells

35w↑14

Thanks for the updates on MDI. I followed them in the early 2000s, but lost track a long time ago.

Reinoud

34w

Quite quiet around them

kingphiltheill

33w↑3

For use in cars, the main hurdle is space constraints. There's just no space in a Toyota Mirai or Hyundai Nexo. Though these being hydrogen cars, they employ large composite tanks and leave very little interiour space for occupants and luggage.

namele55777

34w↑1

very promising development. I cannot wait to see how this technology can perform if given enough refinement.

Hebrew Hammer Arms Co

34w↑3

I remember the TATA in India, Thought it was a great idea as a small around town car.. But electricity is bad, Unless its to charge a Electric Car... The only real issue I saw was the need for 4000 Psi compressors to fill the tank

Max Maxis

34w↑1

I recall hearing that a practical limitation is the operating temperature, you get far less range in cold countries compared to more ideal environments like India.

Robert Christensen

33w

You could use the compressed air to heat water, or heat the home during winter, and then cooling during summer. And you can use zeolite to heat the air supplied to the generator.

Clay Bair

33w↑1

around 20 years ago a man made an air powered car . He used as an engine a triple expansion steam engine design up graded with newer tech . The car was a compact modified with a different engine. The car went 300 miles on a tank of air.

Jimmy Boe

33w↑1

A lot of people don’t realize how air was used for all kinds of different things from filling your tire to mining carts that don’t use electronics and use air instead to prevent explosions from sparks

Glenn Cooper

35w↑6

This was a really fantastic and well researched video - thanks!!

Daniel L

34w↑7

I remember watching a discovery Channel documentary about compressed air powered cars on discovery Channel in the mid 2000s. Always wondered what happened to the idea.

Welgeldiguniekalias

34w↑2

It's because
- Insane pressures are required to get a good yield, causing a lot of stress on the tanks which will need to be replaced regularly, adding cost,
- Air tanks must be thick and thus bulky to handle the pressures involved, and must be made from expensive high grade steel,
- Efficiency is really not all that since a lot of energy is lost in the form of heat during compression,
- The system freezes over if decompressed too rapidly, and heating is required to overcome this, further reducing efficiency,
- Max. power tapers off as the tanks are slowly depleted,
- Steam power proved more efficient, cheaper, versatile, and reliable.
Compressed air engines have only niche applications, really.

Christmas Snow

35w↑4

In 2007/2008 I read about Tata Motors compressed air project. Back then I was actively trading in the stock market. I bought some stocks and suddenly I heard no updates about the project. I waited while the stock kept going down and heard nothing ever since. The rest is history.

Prolific Invention

34w↑1

I haven't watched the entire video, but my understanding of compressed air energy storage is limited mostly by the air motors inefficiency which is at most 5-10% efficient at converting air pressure to rotational energy.

Slomnim

32w↑1

Could use a Tesla turbines to boost the efficiency, and then use an electric motor after that

Mr Ice

34w↑1

I can definitely see this working together with hybrid cars to get its start. I dont see why not

Samuel Singer

34w↑1

Yes compressed air cars have been around for a while. I remember them being on the market in India several years back. Definitely is cleaner, both in terms of air pollution, chemical waste, and supply chain risk.

Rick Haiman

35w↑1

If I remember right a gentleman built a ford grenada powered by compressed air tanks, and a very large rodac impact wrench. Might have been in Popular Science or Mechanics too.

BrownMInc

34w

So cool to see someone I've met on this channel! Dr. Dincer was a lecturer of mine, Thermo & Heat Transfer

Daniel Lapain

34w↑1

I can see it being very efficient tech, there are even quiet running compressors. You could technically run one off less solar energy than batteries require and use a tesla turbine to collect electricity in ultra capacitors. We have been unknowingly perfecting this technology in the background for years. Bringing it altogether in a system is a no brainer.
It's the other side of it I don't like. It's a neat idea, It does have its issues though. One being when they do go wrong, sure they might not explode but they will take off like a rocket and take out a brick wall as any welder will tell you about their air tanks. Your gonna have to really fasten down the large tanks to prevent this which adds weight to the system. Which makes me question using it. The safety device on a vehicle would be a tank around the other tanks that would direct the compressed air upwards. Look up what it takes to hold down a rocket btw.

wolfy

35w↑4

what about self discharge though? if you also want to keep the heat to get more power from the expansion, you will have to insulate the tank, but even the best insulation isn't 100% perfect so you will lose power, also, there is the problem of thermal mass location, you can't compress in a central location and then use the air in the cars or whatever when the heat energy is stored in some sort of thermal battery located where the compressor is

ron black

33w

you would need to use that heat energy somehow in the compression plant to save energy on compression.

Isgolo

35w↑3

Compressed air tanks are heavy, I seriously doubt that the energy density can be increased without increasing the pressure to an unsafe level and survive the amount of compression and decompression cycles that a car would need. Composite materials are great, but tend to degrade over time. That is one of the advantages of heavy steel in industrial compressed air tanks, once they reach a certain level of wear, the steel stops degrading, giving it a much longer lifespan than composites.

Rayleigh Criterion FE

34w↑4

Rather than using compressed air, why not use a liquid that boils and expands greatly under heat. Instead of using low efficiency air compression, instead more efficient induction heating.

Viola, you've got a modern 21st steam engine which would only need to be plugged in once a week for typical driving distances.

Nahome Tesfay

34w↑1

Heat engines are inherently less efficient than electric motors so there's no real advantage

Rayleigh Criterion FE

34w↑2

@Nahome Tesfay They also cost a fraction to manufacturer compared to electric motors and expensive lithium batteries.

TheLittlestMig

34w

Would be interesting to see HPA buses/delivery vehicles tested somewhere in warmer parts of Africa. Stick a water circulating solar collector on the vehicle roof to heat the air and the motor.

If vehicles are designed with repairability in mind they'd be simpler to maintain than 80's-early 2000's gasoline vehicles they have available in numbers. It is very likely something needs to be done quickly as older vehicle stock in Europe is running dry in few years. Vehicles from roughly 2000 onwards have satanic design and get progressively more and more impossible to maintain by anything short of manufacturer approved dealership.

Dlgeis

34w

There is a reason this is far more suitable for fixed storage rather than mobile storage if you think EV batteries are dangerous imaging the explosive force of a ruptured pressure vessel

Alan D.

35w↑2

I really like your videos, please keep doing more 👍🏻

bobstuart

33w

In a city with mostly air-powered cars, all the potential energy is available instantly, without mixing with air or combining chemicals. A single collision at rush hour could start a chain reaction to blow up all the main roads and parking lots.

liam robertson

34w↑1

I always wondered since I was a kid why compressed air can't be used to drive vehicles?

Fábio Teixeira

34w

While I very much disagree with the statement that "there is very little self-discharge": yeah the tank may not leak, but the heat from the paraffin will eventually scape, the approach of separating the storage of heat and pressure energy remains very interesting.

You see, even with the air tank pressurized to full capacity, more energy can be added to the "air-battery" system in form of heat (from any source) to the paraffin tank. And, most importantly, it provides means to later recover that heat energy that did not originally "belong" to the compressed air. I wonder if it would be efficient enough for home storage...

Neuralism Gaming TV

35w↑3

I did a school project on compressed air cars 12 years ago, pretty much all the articles I used seem to have since vanished from the Internet.

Alexander Gräf

35w↑314

Physics will always tell you that compressed air is a very inefficient energy storage. It's even inefficient in a workshop, where its benefits can still outweigh the inefficiency. But for cars, LMAO.

Bo Westerlund

35w↑64

Was looking for this comment. Factories have been moving away from compressed air as a “energy source” (pneumatic cylinders etc in machines) for years now and switching to electric actuators instead. It is way more efficient (thus cheaper and less emissions) to use the electricity directly rather than using electricity to make compressed air and then use it..

Alexander Gräf

35w↑28

@Bo Westerlund Yes, even in the shop, a lot of energy is lost, and with BLDC motors and the necessary controllers/inverters getting cheaper and smaller, one of the main arguments of using pressurized air tools - being compact - has become obsolete.
It still has a place in industries where explosions can occur, though.

T Z

35w↑12

And about 10 years ago, MDI also claimed a practical car powered by compressed air. So far no sign of it hitting the road.

Alexander Gräf

35w↑13

@T Z The more air you need to store, the less practical it becomes. As a result, there are a few small and range-limited cars on the market, I believe made by Tata.

Bo Westerlund

35w↑10

@Alexander GräfExactly! A good example of what you are saying is a dremel. It can almost do the same work as a similarly sized die grinder but without the 3 hp air compressor. Personally I only use my garage compressor for stuff when I need the air itself. Like pumping tires or blowing dust of things etc

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Geoffry Gifari

34w↑5

Some interesting questions!

1. How easy can "refueling" be for a compressed air vehicle?
2. How can compressed air vehicles handle changes of external temperature?
3. Related to the previous question, can heat radiation from the sun/ambient air (like when a car accumulates heat on a parking lot) be harvested to maintain the air temperature?
4. Is there a way to maintain the pressure while air is being discharged (i'm thinking an inner spring-loaded piston, reducing the volume of the tank (raising pressure) while air escapes)
5. How would the size of the air tank affect the practicality of vehicles like this?

Masoud

34w↑3

I think refueling would be the same as current CNG refueling stations.

Grant McCoy

34w↑1

For 2, Heat would increase pressure. And yes, you could take advantage of that.
4, it would just increase the pressure from the beginning. It would be the same as just running a higher pressure. You could use some kind of powered device to increase pressure at will, but that would be counter productive.

James Collins

35w↑8

Unfortunately, to me this has the taint of a startup money and funding grab. Others mentioned the tank safety issues if the vehicle and air system is damaged, but there are many others to evaluate. System performance changes due to external temperature changes, elevation changes, air drying when compressed, how the air system reacts to external pressure changes, i.e. fronts, low pressure systems and tropical storms are all huge factors to consider.

dazaspc

35w↑2

Elevation only matters when making the compressed air a drop in external pressure would give the system more power.
Dew point would be a huge problem though.

Slicerwizard

34w

Videos of this type ARE just ads for the latest scam. The video productions are usually paid for by the companies/products being showcased.

SRB

35w↑3

Augwind, an Israeli company, has developed a utility-scale isothermal compression solution for energy storage. I think the commercial name for this system is Air Battery.

MRAsposito

34w

I recall reading the patents in 2005 and following Guy Nege's work with MDI Cat and Tata Motors. Exciting to think about Zero Emissions.

castortoutnu

34w

Compressed air had amazing power density, but pretty low energy density.

Forever Misguided

35w↑2

I remember years ago about this. Like 20 years ago. I’m not surprised it didn’t take off.

thom1218

35w↑9

The electrical grid would be running electrical pumps instead of charging batteries, even with the theoretical efficiency gains over BEV it's basically apples to apples from that perspective.

ZeFellowBud

34w↑1

I think the benefit would potentially be that the car us cheaper to produce since it doesn’t require as many expensive battery materials?

Energywise yeah probably the same if not more costly since compressed air seems more inefficient.

R Bauer

34w

Same as electric cars. The idea is to centralise energy production which can be transitioned to zero carbon. Also not apples to apples in the sense that it doesn't use batteries which require mining of rare earth metals

Bob Cornwell

34w↑3

I have considered the possibility of a compressed air hybrid. The thought is that it can make do with a much smaller engine which can run at just one speed. Its sole purpose is to keep the air tank system pressure between 100 to 120 psi. The compressed air would drive a motor, which will propell the car. The air motor would have multiple cylinders which can be used all at once when high torque is needed, but can shut down one by one until only one is operating at cruising speed. Hopefully, such a vehicle can get by without a gear box.

Slicerwizard

34w

Yes, it would still need a gearbox and you've given no thought to all of the wasted energy that goes into heating the air as it's compressed?

thom1218

35w↑2

The problem with this technology is the need for frequent decompression stops.

Make It With Calvin

35w↑2

I have always been fascinated by air motors and air-powered vehicles. It is cool seeing them getting a resurgence and I feel like they do have a place, especially considering compressed gasses are something we have lots of experience with. Not to mention the lack of insanely flammable lithium batteries.

Ian Davies

35w↑1

Petrol is inflammable.
LFP is quite safe from thermal runaway.
Compressed air is dangerous, like super dangerous.

NO Lol

35w↑1

9:52 is there really no fire hazards related to it? i was under the impression that compressed air was very flammable, unless you pull the o2 out. even if the air isn't flammable, would the benefit not be outweighed, by the fact that if ruptured it could explode?

Camillo Steuss

34w

are you on drugs? air is air, its not flammable, compressed or not... Just walk into any mechanics shop, take your lighter, light up a blowtorch and try to blast compressed air into the flame jet of the blowtorch... It just disrupts the fire and makes noise... We are not talking about liquid flammable gasses like butane or similar in a bottle, its just air... You can try blowing it through a welding arc and it would not set ablaze, and the welding arc is around 10000 celsius... a blowtorch is around 1200... its all depends, but you get my point...
The explosion in this case is not an explosion as in a bomb, but more of a shrapnel shooter, as the punctured place starts tearing outwards under immense evacuation of pressurized air... Some of it was ``accounted`` for in the video with composite tanks and chassis storage, but i highly frown upon those solutions... A chassis storage(you make a car ``frame`` out of tubular steel and use that as an air tank) is shit, well, its shit in 2 ways... One is the fact that tubular chassis will have like 20 liters of volume to it at normal conditions, so even when pressurized to however many bar/psi, it will hold nothing useful and will deplete in minutes of actual work... Second, if that shit gets breached(traffic accidents, imbeciles reversing into whatever, imbeciles crashing into whatever, you get my point...), you have just lost your power storage to 0 in a microsecond, and whats more, the whole vehicle is pretty much scrap after that, as you cant really reform a tubular chassis used for air storage with 100% surety that it isnt compromised somewhere else, or that the already present stresses induced by the crash wont be further developed into microfractures during the reforming and repairs, which will then just be a ticking bomb, waiting for you to hit a sleeping policeman on the road at 10mph and the crack will appear, again, rendering your vehicle scrap...
The concept is interesting, and there is a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo here for the layman in this video, but as a machinist and an automechatronics tech, i severely doubt this technology in this specific usecase... I never believed that i would say it, but its just as bad as electric solutions... Other types of problems, but just as full of issues at every corner...
There may be a solution that involves either air or electricity for vehicles as a power source, but it is not something that mankind has yet grasped... The only benefit of compressed air solution is the fact that if shit goes bad, it wont burn down at 10000 degrees celsius, just like the welding arc, because it has no high power batteries which can go insane... But i would not trust a compressed air tank either in traffic... Sure, it may not shatter, it just cracks open, but any decent pressure of large volume of air is just a hazard if its expelled almost instantly due to a breach in the storage... Enough to cause damage to other things and take your eyes out in the process, if not far worse, depending on the direction of the air vector, the construction of the vehicle and dozens of other factors of course, but honestly, i would rather not sit atop either a high power battery nor a pneumatic tank... A gasoline and diesel tanks can be lit ablaze, and gasoline will explode, unlike diesel which practically cant at atmospheric conditions, but i would rather sit atop either of those tanks than something that is literally thunder or a welding arc in a jar or a blast of wind in a jar, capable of tearing flesh off your bones if shit goes bad... I have had a car with a breached gasoline tank for years, actually years, and gas was always leaking out, the whole car stank of petrol when you got near it, and i am a heavy smoker... Nothing bad ever happened... Survivor bias may be, but still, this tech, not even close to viable, at least not from the technical standpoint of actual useful work being done in multiple scenarios, conditions, places and what not...

Mick von Bornemann

34w↑1

Compressed air is not uncommon for forklifts in large food warehouses where pollution is not wanted. This way the pollution is transferred to electric power stations or outdoor petrol powered compressors

Winford Nettles

34w↑1

Yeah, we just had a very blatant example of the resiliency of composite overwrapped vessels with the loss of the submarine.

Einfach Fredhaft Gaming

33w↑1

9:50 I drive my EV for 3 years now, never experienced self discharge even when standing for two weeks

john delong

35w

Would a variable displacement motor increase efficiency?

Appletank8

34w

Am I right in that Compressed air storage only becomes better than Li-ion after using isothermal support? And this is good enough to prevent any heat leakage? Otherwise that would be a source of loss over time.

beautifulsmall

34w↑1

Hitch hiking around 1983 I got a lift with a journalist and we talked about machines and things and that steam engines had reached a high degree of efficiency in the cylinder , at the time possibly better than 4star leaded petrol. and I predicted the re introduction of steam , ok air not steam but its basic physics that counts and the more basic the more efficient.

error

35w↑6

I'm doubtful if the parafin trick will make efficiency so great that the "battery" has low self-discharge.
Isn't it (the parafin) going to freeze after some time? Then the entire advantage of heating up the gas is non-existent.

Haven't thought for too long but phase-change materials like CaCl2 and parafin are cool nonetheless.

Pawel W

34w↑1

The only serious downside is a compressed airtank. Have you seen, how it can explode with 300-400 bar?

circusitch

35w↑1

Really neat. I always wanted to be a pneumatic enthusiast.

Morgan Tisdale

34w↑1

Me too. I always wanted to combine it with my love for travel and become a 'nomadic pneumatic enthusiast'🤪

circusitch

34w

@Morgan Tisdale That’s really funny. I’ll have to tell the guy who made the video, (since I know him)

sabir bayram

33w

It looks amazing though, ill be 3d printing my first jet engine prototype design for air intake and output tests then send it to cnc company to get it machined out of metal so I could test the hybrid feature with gas instead of a electric motor for the 3d print version, if it works i hope to start my jet engine company fot people that want to make models and stuff

ThatsAwesome

34w

I been optimistic about MDI that promises air powered engine, but its seem just so underpower to drive at hilly region and give you not enough distance to you next air pump station something EV has solve today.

Aden

35w↑5

I think one major issue will be safety, how exactly is the tank supposed to "rupture" and not just blow up in the event of a crash?

dazaspc

35w↑1

At 3500psi air will expand 20 times its volume returning to atmospheric pressure when released. It's as good as an explosion if uncontrolled.

Pascal Bruyere

35w↑1

Your car wreck will fly away like a loose balloon 😂

Ian Davies

35w↑1

@dazaspc3,500 psi / 14 psi = 250x expansion
Would struggle to have equivalent energy to 1-2 ounces of petrol (burned in air).
Horrendously dangerous as well as wimpishly weak store of energy.
And expensive / fragile pressure vessel - ask carbon fibre submarine victims.

dazaspc

35w↑1

@Ian Davies Oh well stand in front of lets say a 4" air line at 100 psi then you tell me if in fact its a wimpish expansion. The thing is its like a loaded gun coked unlike a petrol version that's like a gun with the bullet on the table. It needs a few processes to become dangerous unlike the stored air that is stored danger.

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Randy King

35w↑16

All of this "alternative" energy research, with it's increasingly complex ideas is the new alchemy and it will be just as successful.

Jochen Stacker

34w

alchemy turned into chemistry and made our modern world possible. Without it, we'd still sit in mud huts and rub sticks together for fire.

TransitBiker

33w

Grid scale storage could be a good start for this tech, then adapt that to vehicles.

Collin Smith

32w↑1

I’d be a little scared to see a compressed air car crash. Seems like it’d be an instant bomb. Cool idea though. 👍

Surux Strawde

34w↑2

Ah it’d be better if we had hybrid renewable machines with pedal power options so people can exercise while they drive.

Surux Strawde

34w

Technically we could chemically utilize air for energy since biological life already does that, but idk how we’d get a nonbiological hard tech construct to do that.

Ian Weetman | Ion + The Spectres of Light

33w

I for one still hold out hope for an #airpunk world... ;-) Very cool alternative technology...

victorarnault

34w

The Eolo car, in 2002, was a first of its kind.

David Liddelow

35w↑2

@11:00 You could solve the drop in tank pressure issue with a pneumatic regulator, assuming your motor works fine at low pressure.

Geri _crs

34w↑1

the low pressure problem can be pixed by using motores designet for lov pressure and highg aireflow, so you can storage like 240atm and the motor runs at max 4atm with a pressure regualtor the problem is fixed. you have the same tourqe and power until your 240 atm tank is at 4atm

redstone craft guy

35w↑9

Pneumatic motor still has to obey the second law of thermodynamics. Not many people know this.

Pascal Bruyere

35w

Do you mean it’s going to get very cold?

redstone craft guy

35w

@Pascal Bruyere it means efficiency is related to temperature difference

Radical Edwards

35w

@redstone craft guytemperature difference

redstone craft guy

35w

@Radical Edwards yeah, that's what I meant

SmoothCanoes

35w↑2

I always get excited when there new uploads from this channel!

Jocelyn Joseph

34w

Excellent presentation. 👍👍

Arc Anon Drum

34w

I believed in Tesla Motors before Elon Musk had ever heard of it. I had trouble believing in compressed air vehicles BUT compressed air should be incorporated in propulsion design. Before the reader laughs, I owned a Chevy built before emission standards, all the components introduced since then work along with the internal combustion engine, so the idea that motors, engines and compressed air can produce efficient, powerful and clean engines sounds less far fetched when you think in those terms.

Lyndon Sia

31w

Compressed air has been used by the Russian in their submarines. Which is very quiet and creates more speed.

AMAN Dhingra

35w↑1

Sources in description would be great

cryptout

34w↑1

Amazing how out of touch these brilliant minds are with their car design. Don’t make a weird smal Air Pod make a big SUV, this is what people want.

Gunnar Gervin

34w↑1

A French or Italian company sold small trucks that ran on compressed air, quite cheap, 5000 euro +-, but air went out of it, probably cos they were a bit slow.

gridvid

35w↑1

Will there be a video on the "generic air-gen effect" ?

Huge Gamer

34w

It’s a shame these systems aren’t presented from a neutral exergy perspective, even so the energy density of compressed air is not even on par with lithium batteries being about the same worse case to lithium cobalt being 5 times higher. You would need around 15-20kpsi to beat lithium but cost, control, and danger are high. The ability to control electric motors on scales approaching the microsecond vs air engines with response times orders of magnitude slower, or the ability to use the energy efficiently for motion with about 90-97% peak efficiency for electric and 30-40% best case (typically worse) for compressed air. A lithium battery is hard to put out, yea, but a compressed air vessel with the same energy is a bomb in a bottle where if you sneeze or get in an accident it all unloads like a billionaire submarine explorer.

Clemente de la Cuadra

34w↑1

Too complicated to use on vehicles, I guess. Good for static applicatios, though.

Jose Lopez

35w↑3

I am still waiting for some Youtuber to make a rubber band motor out of bungee cord. Torque/twist it up with an external motor to "charge it" and see how far you can take a typical passenger card on elastic drive!

98grand5point9

34w

There have been many compressed air motors. Several years ago there was a French compressed air car. Didn't work out.

Terence Iutzi

33w

Wow ! And it only takes 3 HP to produce 1 HP of compreesded air! That should triple the pollution problems!

Rusty Shackleford

35w↑3

Low energy density can be overcome at the expense of safety and increased risk of catastrophic failure. Imagine a 4500psi air tank detonating in a collision...even if you survive the crash you will not survive the explosion of the tank. Burning literal TNT would be safer than this!

Jeff Rosenbury

33w↑1

So, heavier, less efficient, and more expensive. What's not to love?

FuhrChris

31w

I'm confused! According to the video they used parts from homedepot? I can't Identify the actual air motors or where I would get one for my own builds? can anyone help me find a parts list and supplier listing?

Daniel Larson

34w

Lithium Ion batteries wear out. The electronics are difficult to work on. It seems like compressed air energy storage may last for many years if properly maintained.