Do you mean it would work if you had a big enough bottle and a place
to put it ? ......... Good use for a tesseract
AGSC

On 2006-Aug 06, at 08:42hrs AM, Tony Smith wrote:

>> Compare the
>> cost of that new hybrid with the cost /difference/ between
> the gas my
>> old civic will use compared to the new hybrid. [...]
>
> I remember a while back one of the presenters at the local
> SAE chapter meeting mentioned that storing the braking energy
> as compressed air achieves up to 70% efficiency, compared to
> only 20% for batteries. I do not recall the reason why
> hybrids are still using batteries. Safety? Difficult to
> achieve smooth acceleration?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vitaliy


Energy density.

Battery don't hold much power, but bottles of air contain even less.

Tony

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