The Future of Air Powered Motorcycles Coming Sooner Than You Think By Dan Evon Alternative fuels have been all the craze ever since we started burning a hole in our Ozone layer. We’ve seen electric motorcycles, bio-diesel bikes, and prototypes for bikes that run on everything from wind to thunder...yes thun- der. But now, a group in India says that they have a new solu- tion to pollution. Air power. Two scientists in India have designed an engine that uses compressed air to turn a small air turbine. Bharat Raj Singh, one of the scientists, says that his new engine could generate enough power to run a motorcycle for up to 40 minutes at a whopping 11 mph. Pretty impressive right? No? Well take this into consider- ation. An air powered motor- cycle would have virtually no negative impact on the environment, would have an endless supply of fuel, and would be as cheap as dirt, or air. But there are still a lot of hurdles in the way of an eco-friendly air powered motor- cycle. 32 ALLABOUTBIKES . VOL. 2, ISSUE 7 Right now, the benefits of running a bike on air are canceled out by the energy that is required to compress the air. Singh is currently working on a natural way to compress air so that running the bike wouldn’t require the use of any fossil fuels. Also, storing the com- pressed air can be a problem. The tanks have to be extremely strong, and they have to hold enough air so that you don’t run out of breath in just a few miles. But Singh and his team are on the right track, and in a highly popu- lated and polluted place like India, these bikes could really make a difference. Singh says that emissions could be cut by 60% if his bikes become widely used. Singh, however, is not the only air power pioneer. Edwin Yi Yuan has designed a concept air-fueled bike named the Green Speed Air Pow- ered Motorcycle. Yuan’s bike was designed to break the speed record for an air-powered bike, which right now is at about 18 mph. The Green Speed machine uses an engine designed by Angelo di Pietro, which revs up to 1000 RPM’s, allowing the bike to only need

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