Faced with soaring energy prices, researchers and developers worldwide are giving compressed air energy storage (CAES)—a technology almost 50 years old—a dusting, a spit shine, and a new life. In ...

Two scientists in India have conceptually designed a new, cleaner motorcycle engine that uses compressed air to turn a small air turbine, generating enough power to run a motorcycle for up to 40 ...

[Tom Stanton] has been experimenting with compressed air motors on model aircraft for a good few years, but keeping them aloft (and intact) for more than a few seconds has proven a tough nut to crack.

It's an elegant idea—you ride your motorcycle to the filling station, pull up to the compressor where other people are filling their tires and top off your fuel tank with air. What could be cheaper ...

Start-up General Compression looks to commercialize concept for storing electricity generated by wind turbines using compressed air. Image: Pumping wind power underground Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

For the charging phase, the system relies on cylinders linked to a 9-horsepower air motor that is used to convert the potential energy of the compressed air and kinetic energy in the flowing air to ...

Recently, we discussed the prospect of using compressed air as a form of energy storage. Unfortunately, it's hard to get much in the way of details on how the process actually works; there's only a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- FirstEnergy Corp. has taken the first step toward developing a huge natural gas and compressed-air power plant -- capable of generating as much electricity as three nuclear reactors ...

A modern turbine works by drawing air in through an inlet, where it goes into a compressor, which pressurizes the air using airfoil-shaped spinning blades. That pressurized air is joined by fuel and ...

ONCE upon a time, frugal four-cylinder engines were to be found only in the most modest of motor cars. Today, they are being fitted to even luxury models. The big difference, of course, is that ...