Brian Pettit

EXCELLENT reply! Ever see the movie "Water World"? I swear Kevin Costner was using compressed air as part of his catamaran system, and they even gave some hints with the vertical blade turbine usage. It seems sometimes TPTB give us little "hints" here and there about what is ACTUALLY in use but just not available to "mere consumers" just to throw it in our faces...

I have indeed heard of power companies pressurizing caverns for storing off-peak energy before, but can you imagine if they were using DiPietro motors to power the generators instead of the inefficient turbines? Combined with flywheels that actually store air pressure/weight and the entire grid could be powered by mere gentle surface winds and/or even the fluid movements through storm and sewage drains!

THIS is exactly the type of discussion I was hoping to encourage, THANK YOU! =D

Every house has the option of either self-providing or tapping into the "air grid" to either download extra unused pressure from the household, or borrowing some of other people's excess, or using credit from previous times of excess. We could even use existing gas and/or water lines depending on how we decide to PROPERLY dispose of our waste without using the "power" of our own fresh water supplies.

Note to consider: Compressing air results in WATER ACCUMULATION right out of the atmosphere that can be consumed or used in place of well or municipal water sources.

However, I feel compelled to mention (because it dawned on me that I never have mentioned it yet) that the beauty of almost all my designs is that they operate from SURFACE winds and don't require towers, especially the pendulum and vertical axis wind turbine concepts with air storage tanks in motion along with the outer perimeter that gain weight as the rotation increases their pressure. Combine this with liquid-filled flywheel enhancements that start easily and slow resistively and BAM we got windbottlin' goin ohn... hell, turn it into a kid's carousel with sails and let the kids playtime generate shared pressure throughout entire communities in an "on demand" consumption and maintenance self-provision network.

Stationary storage tanks will indeed perpetuate the myths of pneumatic power "inefficiencies", but begin including their dynamic mass accumulation into the power collection process and these "assertions" diminish if not completely become irrelevant. Compressed air is the ONLY power source that can be used in this regard and is completely being overlooked IMO. I attempted to explain this concept to a propane delivery dude and he attempted to INSIST that since atmospheric gases don't "start" as a liquid, that they do not gain weight under pressure.