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In article <1992Nov9.153449.11656@bsu-ucs> 01crmeyer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Craig Meyer) writes:
>I'm looking into the concept of running an automobile off of compressed air.
>
>According to my calculations (based on a Gast airmotor catalogue), such a
>vehicle would require an air tank able to hold 100,000 psi of air.
>
>Is that at all possible?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>CM
>
>-- 
>       Craig Meyer                 01CRMEYER@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU
>       Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humaities.
>       Muncie, IN  47306                          317-285-7433
>
>       Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not necessarily
>       shared by the Indiana Academy.

I'm sure that it's possible to contain some fluid at 100,000 psi.
I'm not sure that air is still a gas at 100,000 psi, though.
I would have to look into the matter.  It's been too long
since I had thermodynamics.

In any case, such a vehicle would probably need a very long
hose, to connect it to a supply of high-pressure air.
I doubt that it could carry a tank large enough to give it
acceptable range.  I suppose that it might carry
some combustible material that could be burned inside
a tank, to create the high pressures.  Maybe gasoline....  Hmm.... ;-)

Tony