This has probably either been thought of already, or won't work, but I just woke up and too tired to look. 
Anyways, here is my idea to remove the World's dependency on natural oil, atleast for automobiles. In order for this to work, all new cars would have to be made, and very slowly over time would be introduced. But like I said, most likely this will not work, but here it goes:
I was thinking on my "thinkin' chair (a.k.a. The Oval Office)" when I thought about the uses of a spool valve outside of paintball. Then it hit me. Could a spool valve be used as a piston to turn a crank shaft and axle and in turn make a car move? If it were to work, we wouldn't need gas tanks, but compressed air tanks. The good news that if this does work, people could buy air compressors for a couple grand and fill up their cars themselves at home (though it would take a while.) Maybe a built in air compressor into the car would solve that? Maybe make a hybrid and throw a battery inside the car to operate that motor to run the air compressor, to run the car. Or, since alot of the combustion engine would be gone since the lack of necessity of parts, maybe a windfan that operates a generator could go under the hood to power the air compressor (Or maybe store the energy in a battery cell and perhaps hook that battery up to your house at night to get a few minutes or hours of energy for your house.)
The only issue I can think of with this idea is if the spool valves, though they would be bigger in this case, would not be able to put enough force onto the crank shaft to turn the axle? I think that can be over come, just depending on what kind of solenoids you could find (I'm sure there are very large ones with higher operating pressure.) Or what about air leaks? Since car seals are water tight and not always air tight, how hard would it be to keep it from leaking? The other issue with this idea is how long the tank would last, and how unstable would it be? Filling up would be a little more complicated then a gas pump, but can be learned easily from anyone. People could also very easily change pressures in their cars to get different horse power and speeds out of their cars, police would have a fit. Also not much torque would be able to be produced from the spool valves, but maybe this problem can be fixed with higher pressures.
The good news is if this does work, even though it's probably already been done, is how easy construction would be. There would be less parts inside the car, and less to go wrong.
Parts would also be very cheap, o-rings being maybe $3-4 for bigger o-rings for the spool valves. Cars would also be lighter and be able to travel further, more efficiently, and safer (less weight means less braking distance, making less accidents happen). And also the paintball community can always throw in a ramping board to make our cars faster.
So what do you guys think of this idea? I know it's probably already be thought of though. Does anyone know if this has been thought of or a similar idea? Please don't flame me too much if it's already been done, just trying to contribute to the community and help solve the bigger issues at hand.
Anyways, here is my idea to remove the World's dependency on natural oil, atleast for automobiles. In order for this to work, all new cars would have to be made, and very slowly over time would be introduced. But like I said, most likely this will not work, but here it goes:I was thinking on my "thinkin' chair (a.k.a. The Oval Office)" when I thought about the uses of a spool valve outside of paintball. Then it hit me. Could a spool valve be used as a piston to turn a crank shaft and axle and in turn make a car move? If it were to work, we wouldn't need gas tanks, but compressed air tanks. The good news that if this does work, people could buy air compressors for a couple grand and fill up their cars themselves at home (though it would take a while.) Maybe a built in air compressor into the car would solve that? Maybe make a hybrid and throw a battery inside the car to operate that motor to run the air compressor, to run the car. Or, since alot of the combustion engine would be gone since the lack of necessity of parts, maybe a windfan that operates a generator could go under the hood to power the air compressor (Or maybe store the energy in a battery cell and perhaps hook that battery up to your house at night to get a few minutes or hours of energy for your house.)
The only issue I can think of with this idea is if the spool valves, though they would be bigger in this case, would not be able to put enough force onto the crank shaft to turn the axle? I think that can be over come, just depending on what kind of solenoids you could find (I'm sure there are very large ones with higher operating pressure.) Or what about air leaks? Since car seals are water tight and not always air tight, how hard would it be to keep it from leaking? The other issue with this idea is how long the tank would last, and how unstable would it be? Filling up would be a little more complicated then a gas pump, but can be learned easily from anyone. People could also very easily change pressures in their cars to get different horse power and speeds out of their cars, police would have a fit. Also not much torque would be able to be produced from the spool valves, but maybe this problem can be fixed with higher pressures.
The good news is if this does work, even though it's probably already been done, is how easy construction would be. There would be less parts inside the car, and less to go wrong.
Parts would also be very cheap, o-rings being maybe $3-4 for bigger o-rings for the spool valves. Cars would also be lighter and be able to travel further, more efficiently, and safer (less weight means less braking distance, making less accidents happen). And also the paintball community can always throw in a ramping board to make our cars faster.
So what do you guys think of this idea? I know it's probably already be thought of though. Does anyone know if this has been thought of or a similar idea? Please don't flame me too much if it's already been done, just trying to contribute to the community and help solve the bigger issues at hand.
youll make billions
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