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Various of Armando Regusci on his bike2. Two passers-by talking about Regusci's bike3. Close up of Regusci's bike, motorbike chain breaking 4. Regusci showing three workers his construction plan5. Close up of Regusci6. Close up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Various of Armando Regusci on his bike\u003cbr/\u003e2. Two passers-by talking about Regusci's bike\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of Regusci's bike, motorbike chain breaking \u003cbr/\u003e4. Regusci showing three workers his construction plan\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of Regusci\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of three workers\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Armando Regusci, Inventor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This vehicle is the only vehicle that has a very special engine. It's an engine that works with a free wheel and a free piston, that means that you can work at very high pressure, supposed 700 kilos by centimetre squared, you can use all the pressure. That means that you don't lose efficiency. Other vehicles have only 10% of efficiency. The efficiency of this vehicle is 60 or 70%.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Regusci working on a lathe (machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing against a fixed cutting tool) \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Armando Regusci, Inventor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With two tanks of 10 litres (2.2 gallons) each at 200 kilos (440 pounds) pressure, you can run a hundred kilometres (62 miles) and the price in Uruguay pesos to run this distance is only one peso. If you run with oil, instead of one peso (0.04 US Dollars) you need to spend one hundred (4 US Dollars) or two hundred pesos (8 US Dollars) to run the same distance.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Regusci working on a lathe\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Armando Regusci, Inventor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You only need a lathe like this and a welding machine with a simple work shop like this one. You can do all the vehicles. We are going to get to do all kinds of vehicles. We are going to do motorcycles, cars, busses, tractors, trucks, all kinds of vehicles. \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Armando Regusci, Inventor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The compressor there goes for this pipe through this valve and afterwards, when it comes here, we have a piston and there it pulls the piston in this direction inside the cylinder. The piston pulls the shaft and the shaft pulls the chain. The chain moves the free wheel in this direction. When the piston comes here, the spring goes there and afterwards, when we open this valve, the spring comes here and brings back the piston to the first position.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of man looking at bike \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various close up of bike \u003cbr/\u003e15. Two passers-by watching motorbike\u003cbr/\u003e16. Regusci riding his bike\u003cbr/\u003eAn engine that runs on air, seems an incredible idea... but a school teacher in Uruguay claims to have invented a bicycle powered by just a compressed air engine...\u003cbr/\u003eArmando Regusci's day job, is as a teacher of physics, maths and natural science. \u003cbr/\u003eBut in his free time he is an inventor. \u003cbr/\u003eTwenty years ago he began developing engines that run on compressed air. \u003cbr/\u003eEighteen years ago he approached Ford and General Motors with the project, but they declined his offer \u003cbr/\u003eHowever he found private investors willing to back his dream. \u003cbr/\u003eNow he has successfully built the first small prototype air compressed engine on a push bike.  \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This vehicle is the only vehicle that has a very special engine. It's an engine that works with a free wheel and a free piston, that means that you can work at very high pressure, supposed 700 kilos by centimetre squared, you can use all the pressure. That means that you don't lose efficiency. Other vehicles have only 10% of efficiency. The efficiency of this vehicle is 60 or 70%.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Armando Regusci, Inventor\u003cbr/\u003eRegusci says this prototype can reach a top speed of 90 kilometres (55 miles) per hour and would cost around 600 US Dollars and offers great value for money....\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"With two tanks of 10 litres (2.2 gallons) each at 200 kilos (440 pounds) pressure, you can run a hundred kilometres (62 miles) and the price in Uruguay pesos to run this distance is only one peso. If you run with oil, instead of one peso (0.04 US Dollars) you need to spend one hundred (4 US Dollars) or two hundred pesos (8 US Dollars) to run the same distance.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Armando Regusci, Inventor\u003cbr/\u003eRegusci is now working on the first proper motorbike which he claims will reach the speed of 150 -180 kilometres (93 - 111 miles) per hour. \u003cbr/\u003eBut his ambition doesn't stop at motorbikes. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"You only need a lathe like this and a welding machine with a simple work shop like this one. You can do all the vehicles. We are going to get to do all kinds of vehicles. We are going to do motorcycles, cars, busses, tractors, trucks, all kinds of vehicles. \u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Armando Regusci, Inventor\u003cbr/\u003eThe technology behind the air compressed engine is relatively simple..... \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"The compressor there goes for this pipe through this valve and afterwards, when it comes here, we have a piston and there it pulls the piston in this direction inside the cylinder. The piston pulls the shaft and the shaft pulls the chain. The chain moves the free wheel in this direction. 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