# "revolutionary" air compressor

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**Created:** [March 8, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolutionary-air-compressor/980896 "2023-03-08T22:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolutionary-air-compressor/980896/1 "2023-03-08T22:36:37Z")

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A good 10% of industrial energy consumption is used up by air compressors.

Lontra has created a rotary/non-reciprocating compressor that has an innovative engineering design.

[Compressing air to reach net zero. A ‘revolutionary’ innovation. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNgG3QDS-g)

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolutionary-air-compressor/980896/2 "2023-03-09T00:12:56Z")

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I’m disappointed in the video. Their system doesn’t address the primary source of inefficiency in large systems: the fact that the air heats up as you compress it.

There are industrial systems that solve this: multi-stage systems with intercoolers between them. Cooling the gases as they’re compressed reduces the work needed to compress further.

But these systems are complex and expensive, and I was hoping to see a device that somehow simplified things. But it’s really just an ordinary single-stage compressor in a different form-factor.