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A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design

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32 points by joshwa 5 years ago · 4 comments

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jaclaz 5 years ago

It looks like nice, and 70 dB is very low noise for something compressing air.

I am perplexed by the symbols in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3qhBmbvs0

Water is H2O alright, but air was not O2 last time I checked.

egberts1 5 years ago

A wonderful archaic technology that is also an useful thing-to-know in post-apocalyptic settings.

  • zeristor 5 years ago

    Although a an apocalypse were access to compressed air sounds more like a lull than a collapse

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