trying to find out more about the air powered engine and others application that it can be used for?

Question

I understand that a genarator has been designed to run on presurrized air and could then make its own fuel.

Answer 1

You've been watching Futurecar, haven't you? They were playing with you. Air powered engines are just like Internal Combustion Engines [ICE] only they depend on previously compressed air. But to make such a motor run an air pump cannot work because there are losses. Compressing air gets it hot. That heat energy then bleeds into the atmosphere, and is lost forever. Any energy loss will break a perpetual motion system. I was surprised that they left the viewers with that simple misconception. I suppose they assumed that most people would recognize the impossibility of the concept.

Answer 2

The Dutch call these windmills. Lots of practical uses. Pumping water, making electricity, etcetera. They can be used anywhere that an intermittently available power source is appropriate.

I agree with you in that we have not fully examined the myriad of possibilities open to this power source. Particularly with regards to brute mechanical force. I often wondered if it would make an ideal air compressor for air evaporation where air is made liquid and the different gases are boiled off, separated and sold commercially.

Answer 3

I'd like to know about it too.