[Spridgets] Air Powered Car...For Real

[ryan.kubanoff at comcast.net]

there were MANY train locomotives that were airpowered especially in mining to eliminate the potential for explosions of diesel or coal fires 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Collins" <thcollin at mtu.edu> 
To: spridgets at autox.team.net 
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 8:46:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Air Powered Car...For Real 

Why just a puny little car power by compressed air? During the mining 
days in the U.P. of Michigan there was a locomotive that pulled ore 
that was run entirely on compressed air. And, get this, the 
compressed air was FREE (once the infrastructure was built) and the 
compressor had NO moving parts and over 80% efficiency. I'll bet you 
guys don't believe this, do you? So, here's a web site to explain it. 
http://www.sections.asme.org/milwaukee/history/51-taylorcompressor.html 

Realistically, if you have to compress air for the little car 
somewhere - on board or otherwise - it's not free and it's not clean 
unless you have can find a Taylor Compressor. 

Tim Collins 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12702006@N07/ 
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