On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> One slight correction on this andrew. If you read the tech articles
> carefully, they are using compressed air, and as the pressure runs
> lower they are using fuel to run a heater to raise the temperature of
> the air to raise its compression. The performance is said to remain
> constant until some point.

OK, so in addition to needing power to fill its cylinder(s), it also
burns fuel...
sounds like a stopgap to me, like otto/electric hybrids.

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