Talk:Compressed-air vehicle

message: Assuming electricity is the same at the plug, it must be compared to the
other technologies in terms of:
# Cost to build, cost to run
# Charge/discharge efficiency
# Power density (power over volume) / specific power (power over mass)
# Energy density (energy over volume) / specific energy (energy over mass)
# Maintenance, reliability, failure modes, etc.
The environmental impacts also need to be quantified:
# Emissions and energy consumption due to manufacturing
# Emissions and energy consumption due to vehicle operation
# Emissions and energy consumption due to disposal
--Mac (talk) 09:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology 

message: The article currently says "disadvantages are less well known because these engines are in pre-production phase". Then how in Hell do we know the advantages? There were several disadvantages listed a couple days ago, and they're gone, but the advantages section is intact. Both advantages and disadvantages can be known from pre-production testing, and you can't know one without the other. I'm going to revert the article, because this sounds like environmentalist agenda to me. Notice I am not going to delete anything from the advantages section. Professor Chaos (talk) 20:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: CORRECTION: My bad, the section I saw was in Compressed-air car, not vehicle. These sound like articles that should be merged. The problem still remains, if the disadvantages are known well enough to be included in the car article, they can go in the vehicle article as well, until the articles are merged (if they are). I will copy the section to this article. Professor Chaos (talk) 20:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disadvantages 

message: The paragraph about the air-powered motorcycle built by the mechanical engineering students doesn't seem notable or well-sourced.  I think it should probably be deleted.  Any objections?
Dansan99 (talk) 07:42, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three mechanical engineering students from San Jose State University 

message: In addition to the recommendation of Greglocock to get rid of every entry not supported by a reliable source, I would remove, for lack of notability, well-sourced facts that merely state what nascent vendors claim their own designs can do. As I write this, the article includes claims of 90% efficiency and a 140 km range on compressed air alone, taken from decade-old announcements of forthcoming products. Those products never appeared, and no demonstration has gotten anywhere near those figures.
Bryangeneolson (talk) 01:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untested Vendor Claims 

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message: I was thinking we may want to rename this article to Pneumatic vehicle.
Reason is that besides compressed air, compressed carbon dioxide may also be used in the vehicle.
This has environmental advantages, see also: here
Question I have though is whether the engines that work on compressed air would also work on compressed carbon dioxide. Also, would this be more costly (i.e. do "ambient air to compressed carbon dioxide" tools exist, for everyday people) ?
Also, would this make the vehicle able to store more energy than with compressed air ? I assume so, since it's 60% denser, but I'm not sure.
KVDP (talk) 19:04, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not the place for original research.  "Pneumatic vehicle" could be confused for the things blown through a tube.  Recommend we leave the original name, which arguably is bad, too, as it's not a common term. --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:53, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  The linked article is talking about capturing atmospheric CO2 and cracking it to produce carbon monoxide, which could then be used as feedstock for making combustible fuels.  Since CO2 fire suppression systems regularly kill off unwary engine room personnel on board ships, it seems unlikely to find a new role in propelling vehicles - but that's my original research. --Wtshymanski (talk) 16:05, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed. The article indeed talks about cracking CO2 to produce carbon monoxide, which could then be used as feedstock for making combustible fuels. Still, the principle is the same (in both cases, the CO2 is captured from the atmosphere and carbon is hence temporarily removed from the atmosphere, hereby reducing the greenhouse effect a tiny bit).
KVDP (talk) 14:52, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever.  Please don't rename the article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 16:04, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
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