Re: Additional Source of Power
Yeah, I've bought solar panels and truthfully they aren't quite up to par with our demands on electricity. You need a lot of space to generate a decent amount of power, and cars use an incredible amount of power, AC is no exception. Think about any refrigeration system and it's power requirements and you'll understand why there's a lot of energy being used to cool your car.
On that note the Air Cars expel clean, cold air as exhaust and in the engine the air is expanded in the first cylinder, then passed through a heat exchange coil to warm up (and cool the air going through the HE) then pass into the next cylinder to be expanded... So as the engine operates it generates waste cool air from the heat exchangers that is ready to be used in the cabin at any time. There is also waste heat generated in the engine from friction and it can be extracted into the cabin as well, so both heating and cooling is accomplished without additional equipment or loss of energy. The cooling effect comes from the expansion of compressed gasses, the compressed air being the fuel cools down when it does it's work in a cylinder, so it can be heated up to it's previous temperature (increasing it's pressure) and injected into another cylinder where it expands and cools and it's done all over again, then finally it exists the engine as cool air exhaust. When air is being compressed there is heat generated, this heat balances with the cooling that happens upon expansion.
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