{"id":983,"date":"2008-03-19T06:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/another-air-power-innovation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:23:47","slug":"another-air-power-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/another-air-power-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Air Power Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/airmotor.jpg\" alt=\"Angelo DiPietro's rotary air motor\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineair.com.au\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >EngineAir<\/a>, of Melborne, Australia has invented a 13kg rotary air motor that will replace traditional combustion engines. Unlike the ZPM approach of using a standard piston\/cylinder setup, this is a departure from traditional automotive engine design (Mazda&#8217;s combustion rotary engine has been around for awhile, but it&#8217;s far from mainstream.) This breakthrough was made by Angelo Di Pietro in 1997.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUnlike other companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineair.com.au\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >EngineAir<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem to have secured significant funding and thus has not published a production schedule for vehicles using their technology. However, if compressed air is going to be viable as a fuel, it seems to us that an approach like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineair.com.au\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >EngineAir&#8217;s<\/a> design is more likely to be the longer-term solution than simply repurposing the cylinder\/piston design.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EngineAir, of Melborne, Australia has invented a 13kg rotary air motor that will replace traditional combustion engines. Unlike the ZPM approach of using a standard piston\/cylinder setup, this is a departure from traditional automotive engine design (Mazda&#8217;s combustion rotary engine has been around for awhile, but it&#8217;s far from mainstream.) This breakthrough was made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}