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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: Perspective who wrote (95380)7/3/2008 12:09:24 PM
From: dybdahl  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
When you put a lot of air into a compressed chamber, it will initially increase the temperature of the chamber a lot. The increased temperature will produce an energy flow out of the chamber to the environment.

In other words, the storage mechanism itself has huge energy loss.

Besides that, compressed air needs a HUGE amount of air or pressure to push forward a car. Under realistic circumstances, you need huge amounts, and I guess liquid air is what really would make sense. But you would still need much more liquid air than you would need gas.

I see no reason to believe that air will ever be more efficient for transporting energy, than fuel.
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