This is pretty exciting really, and could be developed further by simply adding a small petrol or electric motor to continue to top up the air tank, then add recovery accumulators to either front or back wheels to assist in air recovery, plus I saw somewhere there is a guy harvesting the spent air from air tools with some kind of recovery system as well. With a bit more thought, it would me almost self energising.
It does however make you wonder what the service stations are going to charge for compressed air.
It also reminds me of a very funny Ben Elton play called Gasping - This is a breif synopsis, and worth a read if you can get a copy.
"Lockheart Industries are looking for a new product to make them huge sums of money. Their whizz-kid Philip comes up with the superb idea of designer air - Perrier for the lungs, in the form of their patent-pending Suck And Blow machine. For a while, all is well, and the machines are a huge success, as sales massively exceed all projections. But greed forces up the price of air until the oxygen industry becomes privatised. And if you can't afford to pay, you have no right to live. Philip's conscience ultimately wins through at the end of the day, and he takes extreme measures to rectify everything he feels he has destroyed (and wreck the Suck And Blow machine)."
Mick
