Dust Powered Vehicle

Dust is one of the most abundant materials on Earth, if not the entire universe. However, despite its ubiquity it is often very difficult to see, even if it's right in your eye.

Perhaps that is why there are few known uses for dust. In fact, dust has so few known uses, and is of such little value that much energy is expended just to remove it from everywhere that it is found, which is everywhere.

Everywhere, devices such as vacuum cleaners, air filters, lint rollers, moistened cloths and hazardous chemicals are all used for the removal of the particles. Even our own bodies have developed bogies to capture and eliminate dust.

Each of these innovations waste the valuable energy contained in dust. Vaccuum bags and canisters are emptied and the dust is sent to landfill, where it returns to the dust cycle. Dusty cloths and chemicals are rinsed in the water supply where they pollute. And bogies are carelessly flicked away, or smeared where they are not to be seen. Worst of all, each of these activities requires energy, none of which is derived from dust.

Therefore, dust should be used to generate energy. All of the existing efforts to collect dust should be maintained, but that dust should be sent to special generating stations where it will be burned in easily combustible clouds to power vacuums in homes around the country

The dust powered engine is central to this plan. It is an internal combustion engine, but instead of running on liquid, vaporized, or atomized fuel it runs on dust. Some of the energy from the engine is used to churn the dust reservoir. From there dust is sucked through large tubes and rapidly delivered in small clouds to a series of combustion chambers. This either generates only heat, or also kinetic energy by driving pistons.

The dust powered engine can also power an automobile. The cliche dusty road can power the vehicle by pick-up tubes found behind each of the vehicle's tires, or in dust tanks that are refilled at dust stations, by dust station attendants.